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Background: Osteoarthritis is most commonly encountered disease of the musculoskeletal system. Symptoms and disability in individuals with osteoarthritis increasing with age. The physical disabilities arising from osteoarthritic knee prevent the performance of daily life activities. Several factors play in the occurrence of physical disability in osteoarthritis patient. This include pain, restriction in the joint range of movement, muscle weakness, kinaesthesia and balance impairment. Many Treatments are available for treating Osteoarthritic knee such as open chain Exercise, close chain exercise, isometric exercise etc., but few studies comparing Kinaesthetic and balance and open chain exercises are done. The Objective of the study is to find out the comparative effect of kinaesthesia & balance exercises And Open chain exercises in reducing pain and improve the functional performance in Osteoarthritis in Knee. Methodology: This is a Comparative Study done on osteoarthritic patients of both genders with age limit of >65 and <85 subjects (N=30) were randomly design in two groups Group A (N=15) And Group B (N=15). Group A will be treated with kinaesthesia & Balance exercises And Group B will be treated with only open chain exercises for eight weeks. Pre and Post intervention outcome were major use VAS & WOMAC Scale