The purpose of the present study was to estimate the hip and knee range of motion in Indian obese individuals and their correlations with selected anthropometric variables. To solve this problem, three anthropometric variables viz. height, weight and percent body fat, six hip range of motion, viz, flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, internal and external rotation and knee flexion were measured on randomly selected 299 Indian obese individuals (152 male having mean age 46.19 ±7.76 years and 147 female having mean age 46.18 ±7.76 years) aged 26–59 years from Delhi, India. The results indicated statistically significant differences (p<0.001) between Indian obese males and females in height, weight and percent body fat. Significant positive correlation (p<0.05) of hip internal rotation was found with weight and significant negative correlation (p<0.05) of hip flexion was noted with height only. In conclusion, it may be stated that there was no significant association of hip and knee range of motion with anthropometric variables studied (except two cases).
