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.
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