The ability to kneel plays a crucial role in the daily events of nearly every individual's life, affecting occupational and domestic activities, which are, at times, closely intertwined with cultural and religious customs. The lack of literature addressing the patients concerns regarding the capacity, to which they will be able to function post-operatively, motivated us to investigate this issue further, so as to be able to more comfortably and precisely convey the answer to this question pre-operatively. In this cross-sectional longitudinal study, all patients were evaluated for eligibility, with prerequisites including those having had total knee arthroplasty (TKA) secondary to a pre-operative diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the knee, from the years 2007–2010 at Poursina Trauma Center, Rasht, Iran. All procedures using a midline skin incision followed by medial parapatellar arthrotomy without re-surfacing of the patella. A PCL substituting prosthesis was chosen for implant. Demographic Data, Knee Society Score (KSS), Functional Knee Score (FKS), Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and patient kneeling ability, were all extracted and recorded, pre-operatively, 1-year post-operative, and again during final follow-up. Statistical analysis was interpreted using SPSS software version 19.Background
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