With advancing age the incidence of health problems also increases. In our country aside vision related conditions diabetes and hypertension degenerative joint conditions are commonly observed in the elderly population. Community based studies have reported approximately 44% prevalence of arthritis in the elderly population with pain stiffness and inability to walk comfortably being the chief symptoms. The reason behind this is that with age having accumulated several stress related factors throughout the repair mechanisms of the body slowly start declining. Moreover old age is also associated with wear and tear of structures in our body thereby resulting in degenerative arthritic