“Comparison Between Nerve Mobilization And Conventional Physiotherapy In Patients With Cervical Radiculopathy.”

Background and Purpose: In the younger population, cervical radiculopathy is a result of a disc herniation or an acute injury causing foraminal impingement of an exiting nerve. Neuromobilization is one of the many methods of manual therapy of soft tissue conditions, and more specifically, neural tissue and tissues surrounding the nervous system. Based on the previous studies, the present study was focused on the effect of nerve mobilization and conventional physiotherapy in improving pain in patients with cervical Radiculopathy Methodology: this research was experimental design to compare nerve mobilization and conservational physiotherapy in patients with cervical radiculopathy. 20 patients of cervical radiculopathy, aged 25-40 years, affected for more than 4 weeks and of either sex conveniently included in the study. Initially, all the subjects were assessed for pain by VAS. Following the principle of randomization, the subjects were allocated into two groups. Group A received nerve mobilization for radial, medial and ulnar along with cervical traction while Group B received conventional physiotherapy which include cervical traction, hot pack and isometric strengthening exercises for cervical. Reassessment was done after 4 weeks of treatment program.

Result: The analyses of significance was carried out by using Unpaired t- test to compare the effectiveness of nerve mobilization treatment on pain as compared to conventional physiotherapy Results were found to be significant for t- value at p-value 0.05

Conclusion: It can be concluded that both the intervention are effective therapeutic options in the treatment of cervical radiculopathy. This result shows that treatment given to patients in Group A is more effective than that of Group B i.e. nerve mobilization is more beneficial in improving the pain in patients with cervical radiculopathy.