International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | July 2022 | Vol 9 | Issue 7 Page 2803 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Napitupulu RM et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2022 Jul;9(7):2803-2807 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Joint complaints in the elderly during the COVID-19 Rosintan Milana Napitupulu, Citra Puspa Juwita, James W. H. Manik* INTRODUCTION Entering 2022 people around the world and Indonesia are still overshadowed by the COVID-19 which is leading to daily living habits. The Delta variant that took a lot of casualties is still in the process of government countermeasures in Indonesia has mutated again into a new variant that has a faster transmission rate. Health is a very valuable and expensive thing, people yearn to be able to move smoothly, without any disturbances in their bodies. Every individual in throughout life wants physical, mental, and social health. Advances in science and technology and socio-economic improvements have an impact on improving public health degrees and life expectancy, so that the number of elderly people also increases. In Indonesia, people aged 60 years and over are called elderly. The increase in the number of elderly people will have an impact on various lives, such as increased health service costs, decreased income/income, increased disability, the need for social support, and the preparation of an environment that is friendly to the elderly population so that there is an increase in elderly dependency. 1 This dependence is caused by physical, psychic, and social that can be described through four stages, namely weakness, functional limitations, incapacies, and inhibitions that will be experienced along with the process of deterioration due to aging processes. 2 The process of aging is a natural condition and cannot be avoided in the phase. Health problems that often occur in elderly are often called geriatric syndrome, among others: lack of movement, easy fall, incontinence, dementia and others. One of the causes of the elderly lack of movement ABSTRACT Background: COVID-19 has an impact on the lack of physical activity of the elderly so that it can cause complaints in the joints such as: pain, swelling, and limited movement. This study aim of the study was to find out the prevalence joint complaints in the elderly during the COVID-19. Method: Research is descriptive with a quantitative approach on 150 elderly people in Cililitan Village, East Jakarta, Indonesia, where data collection is carried out by community health worker (CHW) who have been trained. Primary data collection through a questionnaire containing six questions about complaints of pain, swelling, and motion limitation in the joints: neck, shoulders, elbows, pelvis, ankles, fingers, toes, waist, wrists, and knees. Results: Joint disorders occurred by the elderly, 133 elderly (89%) had two joint problems, followed 8 elderly (5%) had problems in one joint, and as many as 9 elderly (6%) had three joint disorders. Joint complaints in the knee joint are 44%, pain in the pelvic joint 25.3%, and pain in the fingers of the hand 24%. The second complaint of swelling occurs in the knee joints by 8%, followed by the fingers and pelvic joints, which is 5.3%. The third complaint is limited movement in the knee joint 58.6%, fingers 30%, and toes 22%. Conclusions: All respondents had joint complaints during the COVID-19 mainly occurring in the knee joints, fingers, toes, and pelvis. Keywords: Elderly, Joint complaints, COVID-19, Knee joints, Pain Physiotherapy Program, Faculty of Vocational Studies, Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Indonesia Received: 11 May 2022 Revised: 05 June 2022 Accepted: 06 June 2022 *Correspondence: James W. H. Manik, E-mail: james.wamanik@uki.ac.id Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20221741