Effect of yoga therapy on osteoarthritis of the knee

Abstract

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent chronic disease and is a leading cause of pain and disability in most countries worldwide. Objective: To see the effect of the yoga program on patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Design: single group longitudinal pre-post study. Setting: The study was conducted on thirty patients with KOA in residential health care Centre in Hissar, Haryana, India, between the periods of September to December 2022. Participants: 30 patients in which 28 women and 2 males with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Intervention: yoga practices intended to act physically, emotionally, Intellectually, and spiritually level and includes yoga postures, breathing exercises, internal cleansing techniques, meditation, pranayama, and relaxation techniques for one weak. Measurements: WOMAC. Results: While calculating the data with the help of SPSS 26 Version calculating significance value is 0.00 which is less than the level of significance. Conclusion: Results of this study showed a beneficial effect in reducing the cardinal symptoms of OAK. Therefore, yoga therapy can be used as an alternative and complementary therapy in OAK. Keywords: Osteoarthritis, knee osteoarthritis, western Ontario and Mcmaster universities arthritis index, osteoarthritis knee 1. Introduction Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent of the chronic rheumatic diseases and is a leading cause of pain and disability in most countries worldwide (Ort, 2002). The prevalence of OA increases with age and generally affects women more frequently than men. Most of the OA disability burden is attributable to the hips and knees. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis that causes pain, functional limitation, and disability in older adults. Prevalence was higher among women (25.4%) compared with men (17.6%), older age groups (50% for persons aged >65 years and 29.3% for persons aged 45-64 years) compared with younger age groups (7.9% for persons aged 18-44 years) (Cheung, Wyman, Resnick, & Savik, 2014) [3]. Asia will more than double in the next two decades, from 6.8% in 2008 to 16.2% in 2040. During the period 2008-2040, it is estimated that Singapore will increase the proportion of people aged 65 and over by 316%, India by 274%, Malaysia by 269%, and Bangladesh by 261% and the Philippines by 256%. In 2008, Japan had the world's oldest population (21.6% aged 65 years and over) and China and India were ranked the top two countries in the absolute number of people aged 65 and over (106 and 60 million, respectively). Indian population census of 2001, this adjusted comparison revealed a significantly higher prevalence of knee pain in the rural (13.7%) compared with the urban (6.0%) community (Fransen et al., 2011) [5] .