Abstract
Introduction: The impact of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on physical activities of daily life was studied extensively among the elderly across the globe but not well understood in the Saudi Arabian populace with cultural consideration. This paper assessed the association between knee flexion range of motion (ROM) and ritual physical activities among elderly males due to knee OA.Methods: A cross-sectional study with a sample of 139 males aged 56–74 years diagnosed with knee OA recruited at prayer places. The subjective evaluation was carried using a disease-specific Arabic knee physical functional questionnaire Knee injury and OA Outcome Score-Physical Function Short form (KOOS-PS), and the anthropometric measure of knee flexion ROM was objectively measured by a manual goniometer.Results: The mean and standard deviation of the study sample age, height, weight, and body mass index were 66.9 ± 4.09 years, 158.4 ± 6.1 cm, 74.6 ± 7.1 kg, and 29.6 ± 1.9 kg/m2, respectively. The mean, standard deviation and median of the knee flexion ROM and Arabic-KOOS-PS Questionnaire score were 100.7 ± 7.9, 101.5 and 12.9 ± 13.7, 13.4. The non-parametric Spearman correlation coefficient between the knee stiffness and KOOS-PS physical activities resulted very strong positively correlation, r = 0.967.Conclusion: A strong positive correlation has been found between hidden knee disability and ritual physical activities among male cohorts in Saudi cultural community with knee OA
Highlights
The impact of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on physical activities of daily life was studied extensively among the elderly across the globe but not well understood in the Saudi Arabian populace with cultural consideration
In 2020, it was estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that 15% of world population lives with some form of disability and 2–4% experience significant difficulty during physical activities with the ageing process and chronic health conditions which lead to increase in the rate of disability, and the worst affected are older people [1]
The demographic characteristics of the sample (n = 139) are presented in Table 1 which displays the sample mean, standard deviation, median and minimum to maximum of the subjects age, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of the elderly male who actively participated in the community
Summary
The impact of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on physical activities of daily life was studied extensively among the elderly across the globe but not well understood in the Saudi Arabian populace with cultural consideration. A person with disability resulting from a chronic disease sometimes may visually appear normal but faces difficulty performing task specific physical activities. 80% of them have limited movement and 25% are unable to perform their major physical activities of life [3]. Recent studies in Middle-east in the year 2020 have concluded that there was an impact of culture on health and effects of OA on physical activity limitation, participation, and religious activities [4]. OA commonly affects the movable as well as weight bearing joints [6]
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