Background: Neuromusculoskeletal disorders are conditions affecting the nervous system, muscles, bones, and joints, leading to pain, weakness, deformity, and impaired mobility. These disorders are a major cause of disability and often require long-term rehabilitation to improve functional ability and quality of life. Orthotic devices are commonly used to support weakened body parts, maintain proper alignment, correct deformities, reduce pain, and enhance mobility and independence. The successful use of orthotic devices depends on appropriate understanding and proper utilization by patients. Therefore, assessing patients’ knowledge regarding orthotic devices is important to identify existing knowledge levels and gaps, which may influence their effective use and rehabilitation outcomes.

Objectives

1.       To assess the knowledge, perspectives and compliance regarding orthotic devices among patients with orthotics.

2.       To find association between the knowledge, perspectives and compliance regarding orthotic devices with sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, religion, marital status, educational qualification, occupation, family income, type of family, place of residence, social habits, co-morbid illness, type of orthotic device used, duration of orthotic use, reason for orthotic use, previous exposure to orthotic devices, source of information regarding orthotic devices.

Methodology: 30 participants were selected by using purposive sampling technique.

Results: The study findings revealed that among 30 samples, the majority of 18(60%) had inadequate knowledge, 10(33%) had moderate knowledge and only 2(7%) had adequate knowledge regarding orthotic devices. The overall mean score and standard deviation was 11±5.1 and the mean score percentage was 36.66%, which was inadequate regarding knowledge, perspectives and compliance on orthotic devices. The chi-square test revealed a significant association between knowledge, perspectives and compliance regarding orthotic devices with the type of family (p<0.05) and no significant association was found with other sociodemographic variables, hence the research hypothesis H₁ was accepted.