Role of Proprioceptive Exercises in Knee Osteoarthritis

Abstract

Knee Osteoarthritis is most common form of arthropathy. Osteoarthritis is the common condition characterized by progressive damage to the articular cartilage and the presenting features are joint pain, tenderness and decreased ROM. Risk factors are multifactorial and include older age, female gender, obesity, previous joint injury, genetics and muscle weakness. Knee OA affects 33% of normal individuals above the age of 65 years. The main objective of this review was to determine the role of proprioceptive exercises in knee osteoarthritis. Also summarization of all evaluated work is done in various studies. Various studies have been taken from google scholar, pub med, etc. that includes their role of proprioceptive exercises in knee osteoarthritis. The selection of study, extraction of data and clinical relevance and the assessment of methodological quality were performed independently. Therefore on basis of included articles the results are laid down. Various studies which show the influence of knee osteoarthritis on joint proprioception are used. This literature review has shown that influence of proprioceptive exercises for knee osteoarthritis. Future studies should be focussed on assessment of effectiveness for the home-based proprioceptive exercise programme for knee osteoarthritis.