Association Between Patient's Characteristics and Hamstring Flexibility in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

Abstract

Knee osteoarthritis is most common among patients. Patients with knee Osteoarthritis usually have pain, brittle bone and felt difficulty during movement. Mostly individuals after forty years of age have felt the symptom of knee osteoarthritis.Objective: The objective of this study was to find out the association between patients characteristic and hamstring flexibility in knee osteoarthritis.Methodology: cross sectional study was conducted in one hundred and one patients that were selected from rehabilitation centre of Allied hospital, Faisalabad. The study duration was six months. Participants with knee osteoarthritis ( stage 1 & 2), age forty to sixty five years were involved in this study if they had nerve related issues, bone or muscle related disorder were not counted in this study. Subject's characteristics such as their profession, age, pain location as well as duration of pain related questions were asked from patients. Active knee extension test was used for recording the hamstring length. Chi square test was used to determine the association.Results: Men were 38(37.6%) and women 63(62.4%).Occupations of patients had influence on hamstring flexibility (P˂0.000) while patient's age (P˂0.071) durations of pain (P˂0.856) and pain region (P˂0.956) had not associated with hamstring flexibility.Conclusions:It is concluded that patient's characteristic in which only occupations of patients had compromised the hamstring flexibility in knee osteoarthritis subjects rather than age, duration of pain and pain region.