Effect of Combined Neural Mobilization and Intermittent Traction in Patients with Cervical Radiculopathy

Abstract

Purpose: Cervical radiculopathy is one of the common musculoskeletal condition affecting a wide range of population from people involves in desk job to small scale jobs, from a young student to old age population. So it has been of great importance to find out evidence based effective treatment of cervical radiculopathy along with conventional treatment. This study is designed to find out the combined effect of neural mobilization and intermittent traction on cervical radiculopathy

Materials and methods: 30 patients were included in the study and randomly divided into two equal groups. In group A conventional physiotherapy treatment was given along with neural mobilization and in group B only conventional physiotherapy which include intermittent traction and isometric neck exercises treatment was given.NDI (Neck disability index) and VAS (Visual analogue scale) assessment was done on 2nd, 14th and 28th day of treatment.

Results: There was improvement in symptoms in both the group but was more in group A.

Conclusion: The study demonstrated that patients experiencing cervical radiculopathy can improve much earlier and more effectively after neural mobilization technique and therefore provides support to include this technique in conservative management methods of treating patients with cervical radiculopathy for better results.