• Mrs. Pratiksha Rana
• Ms. Dorjee Dolkar
• Ms. Heena
• Dr. Binod Kumar Roka

Pain is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. Management of pain includes pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. Knee Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, is slowly and progressive, non-inflammatory disorder of moveable joint, particularly weight bearing articulation. This is characterized by loss of articular cartilage in articulating joint and hypertrophy of the bones at the articular margins. The damage from osteoarthritis is confined to the joints and surroundings tissue. This is leading cause of pain and disability in elderly person. Weight bearing joints (hips and knees), hands and the vertebral column are most often affected. More than 5 million adults report having osteoarthritis in a knee joint, with pain, swelling, and stiffness, and >75% of these people are women. India is likely to notice an endemic of osteoarthritis with about 80% of the 65+ population in the country suffering with wear and tear of joints. 40% of these people are likely to suffer from severe osteoarthritis, which will disable them from daily activities, say the experts quoting the world health organization (WHO). AIM: To assess effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain among patients with knee osteoarthritis in selected hospital of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. MATERIAL & METHOD: The quantitative approach and pre-experimental design with one group pre-test post-test design was used. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect 60 knee osteoarthritis patients who met the inclusion criteria from the selected hospital. The conceptual framework of the research was based on Modified Imogene king's Goal attainment theory model. The population of patients was in the age group of 45- <74 years with knee osteoarthritis pain. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data and to test the study hypothesis. RESULT: At pretest level majority of the patients 30 (50%) had mild pain while at the post test level majority of the patients 28 (46.7%) had no pain. “t” value= 18.984 shows the significantly difference between the pre-test and post test level of knee osteoarthritis pain. Chi-square value shows no significant association between the demographic variables and pretest level of knee osteoarthritis pain. CONCLUSION: From the result of the study, the overall findings of the study clearly showed the application of cryotherapy procedure was significantly effective in reducing the pain among the patients with knee osteoarthritis.

To Assess; Pain; application of cryotherapy, knee osteoarthritis patients and its pain management.

"EFFECTIVENESS OF CRYOTHERAPY ON PAIN AMONG PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, DEHRADUN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.b44-b51, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207103.pdf

"EFFECTIVENESS OF CRYOTHERAPY ON PAIN AMONG PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, DEHRADUN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. ppb44-b51, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207103.pdf