Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part J (2025)

Study Objectives: To assess the prevalence of jumper’s knee in military personnel (soldier) with associated risk factors & To assess the relation between number service year in army with VISA-P score.

Design: Observational Study.

Setting: Soldiers of 966 TPT regiments were taken in study.

Methods: A total of 100 subjects were recruited for the study on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria after signing the informed consent form. Assessment was done to find out the subjects with jumper’s knee. To assess severity, those athletes with current symptoms suggestive of jumper’s knee also filled out the Dutch version of the VISA-P questionnaire. After this relation between numbers of service year with VISA-P score was done.

Outcome Measure: Pain thresh hold was measured using VAS (Visual Analog Scale), Victorian institute of Sports Assessment (VISA-P)

Result: This study showed that the overall prevalence of jumper’s knee, which is a kind of overuse injury, is about 15.15% among military personnel. Soldiers with jumper’s knee reported a mean VISA-P score 44.200 (SD 6.27011) and had mean years of experience of 10.733 years (SD 2.12020). Soldiers with jumper’s knee are of mean age 30.467 (SD 2.41622), mean height of 173.8 (SD 2.80815) and weight of 72.533 (SD 4.51769).

Conclusion: Prevalence of jumper’s knee is present among soldier’s 966 TPT regiment and it’s about 15%. About 60% soldiers have pain in their knee joint. And there exist a linear relationship between numbers of service year and VISA-P score.