2023, Vol. 10, Issue 3, Part G

Ankle injuries are often suffered by common people and athletes. This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of a combination of frirage massage and the heat therapy to reduce pain and increase the range of motion of the ankle after getting injury.

This study used a pre-experimental design with One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. The research population was the patients with chronic ankle injuries who came to Mr. Eko's Sports Injury Massage Therapy Clinic "Mafaza". The sampling technique used purposive sampling calculated by the Slovin formula and it obtained for about 20 samples. The research subjects received frirage massage treatment which was conducted for 20 minutes, followed by heat therapy for 10 minutes. The instrument used to measure the pain scale was based on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the joint space or Range of Motion (ROM) used the Goniometry. The data analysis technique used descriptive quantitative analysis, hypothesis testing used paired sample t-test to test normally distributed data, While Wilcoxon signed rank was used to test data that was not normally distributed with a significance level of 5%.

Based on the data, the results of this research indicate that the combination of frirage massage and heat therapy can significantly reduce the pain scale (p < 0.05) with an effectiveness of 51.87% and increase the Range of Motion (ROM) in the ankle significantly (p < 0.05) with an effectiveness of 52.2%. Based on these results it can be concluded that the combination of frirage massage and heat therapy is effective in reducing the pain and increasing the Range of Motion (ROM) after getting ankle injury.