PELATIHAN TENTANG SENAM KAKI UNTUK DIABETES DI KELURAHAN HELVETIA

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both (Habtewold, 2016). This disease significantly increases the risk of disorders of the cardiovascular system, end-stage kidney disease, blindness, amputation to death (Fonseca et al., 2012), where there is an increase in the number of sufferers from year to year (Lathifah, 2017). DM is a disease that requires lifelong management related to monitoring blood sugar levels. One of the management of DM is to carry out physical activities including foot exercises. The method used in activities with training and mentoring. The community was formed through a number of activities, namely: coordinating with RT administrators, hamlets, and community leaders providing health education on the benefits of foot exercises for diabetes, providing training on foot exercises for diabetes giving community rewards, giving door prizes after training activities, giving rewards to cadres. The results achieved after participating in the training, the patient knows about what treatment should be done, what are the benefits of foot exercise for diabetes