The effect of hold-relax therapy in inflammation phase of patient with extremities fracture and length of stay in RSUD Dr.M.Yunus Bengkulu 2018

The rate of incidence in a well-restored fracture is only 10% of all incidence In 2013 Indonesia. The healing process of fracture takes a longer time and more special attention especially on mobilization actions which will lead to an increase in the length of stay patient in the hospital. Hold-relax therapy helps to improve the relaxation of the antagonistic patterns, improvement of mobilization and decrease pain so the length of stay will be as needed. Purposed of this research to determine the effect of hold relax therapy on patient fracture of the extremities length of stay. The research used quasiexperimental with post-test only with a control group. The populations are patients with fracture extremities in RSUD Dr.M.yunus Bengkulu. The sampling technique used continuous sampling. Total samples are 34 respondents. analysis test with independent t-test (p-value <0,05). Mean of the length of stay in the control group is 4.76 days and in the intervention group is 3,94 days. The difference mean in control, and intervention group is 0,82 days, that can make reduce the length of stay with p-value 0,012<0,05. hold relax therapy effective to reduce the patient fracture of extremities length of stay Key Wordfracture, length of stay, hold-relax.