Massage methods and duration of intervention in reducing muscle pain in minor KNEE injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a change in physical activity behavior, both sports and work activities. There is a fear that exercise can increase immunity if you are infected with Covid 19. However, the risk of exercising is a mild knee injury which results in spasms of the muscles around the knee at the time of the injury. There is also a fear of coming to medical rehabilitation at the hospital because there is a concern that you are infected with Covid. An appropriate method is needed to help the injury recovery process. Testing the correct massage method in providing therapeutic interventions requires experimental testing. The independent variable in the form of the massage method used is effleurage and friction. The control group used is the Swedish method, and the dependent variable is pain reduction, so the research method used is quasi-experimental. To see a decrease in pain and not make the injury worse. The research sample used was 24 people with the purposive sampling method. They were divided into two groups: the treatment group and the control group. The place of research is a treatment at the MCO (Sports Injury Massage) handling center in Ngijo Semarang.