Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score(KOOS)
INSTRUCTIONS: This survey asks for your view about your knee. This information will help us keep track of how you feel about your knee and how well you are able to do your usual activities.
Symptoms - These questions should be answered thinking of your knee symptoms during the last week.
S1. Do you have swelling in your knee?
S2. Do you feel grinding, hear clicking or any other type of noise when your knee moves?
S3. Does your knee catch or hang up when moving?
S4. Can you straighten your knee fully?
S5. Can you bend your knee fully ?
Stiffness - The following questions concern the amount of joint stiffness you have experienced during the last week in your knee. Stiffness is a sensation of restriction or slowness in the ease with which you move your knee joint.
S6. How severe is your knee joint stiffness after first wakening in the morning?
S7. How severe is your knee stiffness after sitting, lying or resting later in the day?
Pain
P1. How often do you experience knee pain?
What amount of knee pain have you experienced the last week during the following activities?
P2. Twisting/pivoting on your knee
P3. Straightening knee fully
P4. Bending knee fully
P5. Walking on flat surface
P6. Going up or down stairs
P7. At night while in bed
P8. Sitting or lying
P9. Standing upright
Function, daily living - The following questions concern your physical function. By this we mean your ability to move around and to look after yourself. For each of the following activities please indicate the degree of difficulty you have experienced in the last week due to your knee.
Al. Descending stairs
A2. Ascending stairs
For each of the following activities please indicate the degree of difficulty you have experienced in the last week due to your knee.
A3. Rising from sitting
A4. Standing
A5. Bending to floor/pick up an object
A6. Walking on flat surface
A7. Getting in/out of car
A8. Going shopping
A9. Putting on socks/stockings
A10. Rising from bed
A11. Taking off socks/stockings
A12. Lying in bed (turning over, maintaining knee position)
A13. Getting in/out of bath
A14. Sitting
A15. Getting on/off toilet
A16. Heavy domestic duties (moving heavy boxes, scrubbing floors, etc)
A17. Light domestic duties (cooking, dusting, etc)
Function, sports and recreational activities - The following questions concern your physical function when being active on a higher level. The questions should be answered thinking of what degree of difficulty you have experienced during the last week due to your knee.
SP1. Squatting
SP2. Running
SP3. Jumping
SP4. Twisting/pivoting on your injured knee
SP5. Kneeling
Quality of Life
Q1. How often are you aware of your knee problem?
Q2. Have you modified your life style to avoid potentially damaging activities to your knee?
Q3. How much are you troubled with lack of confidence in your knee?
Q4. In general, how much difficulty do you have with your knee?
Thank you very much for completing all the questions in this questionnaire.
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Reference for Score: Roos EM, Roos HP, Lohmander LS, Ekdahl C, Beynnon BD. Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)--development of a self-administered outcome measure. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 1998 Aug;28(2):88-96. Link