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Introduction: The ACL injury has commonly occurred in a greater number of athletes, less publication is about poor knee function and ACL injury in the patient with non-operative treatment. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of patients with ACL injury non-operative, which are associated with poor knee function on daily living activities.Methods: We included patients with ACL injury that has been diagnosed for ACL injury by an orthopedic surgeon or physiotherapist in a hospital or private clinic. All participants were recruited from February 2019 to April 2019. The inclusion criteria were patients who at least 18 years old. We used the KOOS ADL function cut-off score ≤80 to dichotomous the patient with knee problems, and score >80 have no statistical analysis problem. We calculated using binary logistic regression on the KOOS ADL function for each variable.Results: The mean score of KOOS daily living was 72.8 points, of which 66 participants had poor scores, and 37 were acceptable. Women were 9.2 times more likely to had poor KOOS daily living scores than men in non-operative ACL injury patients (p=0.044), and non-elite athletes had a higher possibility by 8.5 times higher than those who were participated in sports only for leisure or recreation (p=0.002).Conclusion: This study confirmed that patients who did not undergo the ACL reconstruction had a poor knee function in daily living. It was associated with women and non-elite athlete participants, yet the concomitant injuries were possibly confounder for the association.

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Background: Q-angle is the angle between the quadriceps and patellar tendon and showing the angle of the quadriceps muscle tension. Pelvic widening in women does not occur in men who lead the Q-angle in women begins to enlarge during adolescence than men. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the addition of kinesiology tape on CKC training and stretching without additional kinesiology tape on CKC training and stretching in women. Methods: This research was a randomized experimental design with pre-test and post-test group design. The sample contain by 24 people divided into two groups of 12 people each. Treatment group with the addition of kinesiology tape on CKC training and stretching, while the control group only CKC training and stretching. This research was conducted for 8 weeks, 2 times in a week. The data collected by the Q-angle measured using a goniometer at the time before and after treatment. Result: The results of data analysis using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, Q-angle was obtained with p = 0.002 for the different treatment groups with an average of 12.25 and in control group acquired Q-angle, with p = 0.002 with 6.416 average difference, and different 47.59% with treatment group. Mann-Whitney test results the average of difference of decreasing of treatment group is 18.5 and the average of difference of control group is 6.5 different 64.86% with treatment group, showed that there were significant differences in the decrease in Q-angle between the two groups with the result p = 0.001 (p <0.05). Conclusion: Conclusions of research are: the addition of kinesiology tape on the training of Closed Kinetic Chain (CKC) and stretching better in reducing excessive Q-angle in women. Suggestion: For the next research suggest to add dependent variables as: muscle strength, functional and speed of muscle contraction of Vastus Medial Oblique (VMO), individual addressing treatment, and use x-ray as measurement tool.

Penjahit merupakan salah satu pekerjaan yang banyak ditekuni oleh masyarakat Bali. Namun, penjahit jarang memperhatikan postur kerja saat menjahit. Hal ini dapat dapat menyebabkan myofascial pain syndrome otot upper trapezius jika dilakukan dalam jangka waktu lama. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan postur kerja saat menjahit dengan terjadinya myofascial pain syndrome otot upper trapezius pada penjahit di Kecak Garmen. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian analitik dengan rancangan cross- sectional. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan teknik Simple Random Sampling. Jumlah sampel penelitian ini sebanyak 70 orang. Data dianalisis menggunakan Chi-Square Test dan memiliki hubungan signifikansi dengan nilai p sebesar 0,000 (p<0,05). Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan postur kerja saat menjahit dengan terjadinya myofascial pain syndrome otot upper trapezius pada penjahit di Kecak Garmen. Kata Kunci : Postur Kerja, Penjahit, Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Upper Trapezius