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Introduction and Aim: Knee osteoarthritis is a common degenerative disease, with its prevalence increasing with age and with multifactorial aetiology. It is a common cause of disability worldwide. Aim of the study is to compare the effect of weight bearing exercises on wobble board and stable platform in improving balance and functional outcome by the pre and post analysis. Materials and Methods: Experimental study was conducted in Saveetha hospital, Chennai. Forty subjects including both males and females diagnosed with osteoarthritis knee within the age of 40 to 70 years were recruited and divided into two groups with 20 subjects in each group (Group A- 20 subjects, Group B- 20 subjects). Group A was given weight bearing exercises on wobble board along with interferential therapy, in 4 sets with 6 repetitions in each set and a rest interval of one minute between each set, 15 minutes per session, 3 days/week for 4 weeks and Group B was given weight bearing exercises on stable platform along with interferential therapy in 4 sets with 6 repetitions in each set and a rest interval of one minute between each set, 15 minutes per session, 3 days/week for 4 weeks. Results: At the end of the study, data was analysed and there was improvement in balance and functional outcome. Conclusion: This study concluded that patients with knee osteoarthritis had improvement in balance and functional outcome through weight bearing exercises given on wobble board along with interferential therapy compared to the patients who were given weight-bearing exercises on stable platform along with interferential therapy. Keywords: Osteoarthritis; wobble board; stable platform; interferential therapy.

A progressive, generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and associated deterioration in muscle strength and performance increases with age. Aging affect the respiratory muscle performance on respiratory system due to anatomical and physiological changes in muscle strength as well as thickness of the respiratory muscles. During resting breathing the limitation of movement is more evident in expiration than inspiration were the FEV1/FVC% falls in older people. There are lot of study on peripheral muscle thickness and muscle torque among elderly population, but not much study on respiratory muscle training. This made us to conduct a study on pulmonary function and muscle thickness in elderly population by training the expiratory muscles. To determine the effects of external oblique muscle training on pulmonary function and muscle thickness in elderly population. 60 geriatric voluntary subjects were assigned to experimental and control group as (n=30) each. Experimental group subjected to 16 weeks of external oblique strengthening along with incentive spirometer training. Control group subjected to incentive spirometer alone. Pre and post training muscle thickness and pulmonary parameters were assessed. The paired t test found there is significant difference (P<0.05) between pre and post training muscle thickness and pulmonary parameters in experimental group. We recommend that resistance training, not only maintain the muscle thickness also improve the muscle thickness and pulmonary parameters among elderly population.