ABSTRACT
Background & Objectives: Osteoarthritis is chronic degenerative disorder of joint having many etiological factors. It is estimated to be the fourth leading cause of disability with prevalence of 22% to 39% in India. There is availability of less evidence of physiotherapy treatment for OA. Hence the need of the study is to find the individual and comparative effect of Apos therapy and knee brace in aspect of pain, range of motion and functional disability in patients with O.A. knee. Method: 30 subjects with osteoarthritis of Tibiofemoral joint were selected for the study and randomly divided in to two groups (A&B) of 15 subjects. Group A received Apos therapy and Group B received knee brace. Both groups treated with active exercises plus IFT. Pain was measured by VAS, Range of motion was measured by Goniometer and functional disability was measured by WOMAC scale. Results :Intra-group comparison of VAS , ROM and WOMAC score showed significant improvement in both the group but Apos therapy group showed highly significant (p< 0.001) improvement. Conclusion: In this study both groups have shown significant difference in reducing pain, improving ROM, and improving functional disability but Apos therapy showed more improvement than application of knee brace.