Comparison Electrical Stimulation and Passive Stretching for Blood Glucose Control Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Physical exercise is one of the cornerstones for management and treatment type 2 diabetes mellitus. But not all people are able to perform physical exercise because of their physical limitation condition. The strategy for those people in this study is electrical stimulation and passive stretching. The aim of this study is to find out the effect of electrical stimulation and passive stretching to lowering blood glucose level. 20 subjects is divided into electrical stimulation and passive stretching group. The provision of electrical stimulation on lower extremities muscles for 30 minutes for electrical stimulation group (N=10). And other underwent passive stretching for 30 minutes (N=10). The result shows that blood glucose level is decrease from 192.9 +/- 10.7087 mg/dL to 165.3 +/- 10.527 mg/dL for electrical stimulation intervention group while for the passive stretching group the blood glucose decrease from 153 +/- 12.468 mg/dL to 136.1 +/- 12.346 mg/dL. Both electrical stimulation and passive stretching arc effective to lowering blood glucose level and can be proposed for those people restricted to perform exercise.