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Background: Osteoarthritis is a widespread, slowly developing disease, with a high prevalence that increases with age, since it causes difficulty in rising from a chair, climbing stairs, sittting walking,. Regarding exercises used in OA, stretching exercises reported to be beneficial in treating osteoarthritis but there is a conflict of evidence among which type is of greater benefit among authors either static stretching exercises, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching Techniques or the combination between both of them. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacies of static stretching and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching techniques in patients with knee OA. Patients: Thirty patients were randomly assigned to two groups, group (A)15 patients with mean age, body mass,height values of 57.2±6.41 years, 86.93±11.83 kg,165.8±8.2 cm respectively that received 5 weeks of static stretching exercises or group (B) 15 patients with mean age, body mass,height values of 59.66±6.34 years, 92.46±21.22 kg163.73±11.61 cm respectively that received 5 weeks of proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation stretching techniques. Assessment: Function, range of motion, flexibility of rectus femoris hamstring muscles were examined before, after treatment, one month follow up after intervention