PENGARUH CLOSE KINETIC CHAIN TERHADAP AKTIVITAS FUNGSIOAL PADA PASIEN OSTEOARTHITIS DI PUSKESMAS PAGAR JATI LUBUK PAKAM TAHUN 2025

A health problem that often occurs in old age is joint pain (Osteoarthritis). There is a clear relationship between osteoarthritis and old age. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that is chronic, slowly progressive, often not inflamed or only mildly inflammatory, and is characterized by
deterioration and abrasion of joint cartilage and the formation of new bone on the joint surface Closed kinetic chain exercise is an exercise that uses the movement of more than one joint that moves by resting on body weight to provide loading on more than one muscle group that works at the same time both agonist and antagonist and increases the activity of the lower limb propioseptive. WOMAC is an assessment instrument in the form of a questionnaire that has been used by health
professionals to evaluate the condition of knee and hip OA patients which focuses on assessing pain, strength, activity limitation of knee OA patients.