Increased time spent in a sitting position for both office workers and students is a risk for low back pain. Therefore, the Physiotherapy Undergraduate Study Program organizes community service activities that aim to educate the Unhas academic community about strategies for preventing non-specific low back pain. This activity will be held on Saturday 5 June 2021 online. This Community Service Program was officially opened by Dr. Ariyanti Saleh, S.Kp., M.Si as the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, Hasanuddin University.
The Unhas Physiotherapy Study Program presented Physio Immanuel Maulang, S.Ft., M.Kes., Sp.F.OR as resource persons in the community service program activities. Physio Immanuel Maulang is a lecturer in the physiotherapy study program and is also a physiotherapist for the PSSI Football Team, physiotherapist coordinator for the Makassar PSM team and the owner of the Makassar & Sorowako Physiocenter Clinic. He explained that the main problem causing low back pain was not an improper sitting position, but the length of sitting position. To prevent low back pain, it is recommended to change your sitting position every 10 minutes. In the material presented, various forms of low back pain prevention physical exercise are given in the form of video simulations. It is hoped that all forms of physical exercise that have been demonstrated can be utilized by the entire academic community as a prevention of low back pain.