Pengaruh Penambahan Stretching Exercises Pada Kompres Panas Terhadap Penurunan Nyeri Pada Neck Pain Syndrome

Background : In Indonesia ten percent of population will experience neck pain within one month. Almost every injury or disease in the neck will caused muscle spasms, pain of the neck pain can be reduced by using pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy, non-pharmacological therapies that can be used is stretching exercises and hot compress therapy. \nBenefit Research: To compare the two methods, hot compresses and stretching exercises. \nMethods : Type of research is the study design Quasi-Experimental with pre and post test with two group design. This study took place in SMK N 1 Salatiga, Salatiga. Samples from this study as many as 12 people in the 2 treatment groups. Measurement of pain measured by VAS scale (Visual Analog Scale). The data obtained were then tested using the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, while for the effects of the two methods used Mann Whitney test. \nResult : Analysis of the data in this study using a statistical test by Wilcoxon rank test in each group, from the first treatment group obtained P = 0.028 andtreatment group II obtained the value of P = 0,027 so that Ho is rejected, which means the treatment group I and II have a significant influence on the reduction of pain neck pain. Furthermore, the Mann Whitney test techniques to determine the value of the difference between the two treatment groups, in order to get the value of P = 0.127 which means that Ho is accepted that there is no difference in effect between group I and group II. \nconclusion: The results showed that introducing a hot compress with and without the addition of stretching exercises may have a significant influence on the reduction of pain in the Neck Pain Syndrome. There is no significant effect between hot compresses with stretching exercises and without stretching addition to the reduce pain in the neck pain syndrome.