To Compare the Effect of MWM v/s MWM along with Neural Tissue Mobilization in Case of Cervical Radiculopathy

Cervical radiculopathy is a pathological condition of the cervical nerve root that may lead to chronic pain and disability. The symptoms of cervical radiculopathy typically include severe neck pain with radiation of the pain to the back of shoulder, shoulders, arm, or hand. Numbness or tingling in the arm can also be present. Mulligan's other spinal manual therapy treatment techniques involve the concurrent application of both therapist applied accessory apophyseal joint gliding and end range active physiological movement on the part of the patient. Neural tissue mobilization uses specific positions and movement of neck and arm to reduces nerve mechanosensitivity, restore function and resolve symptoms. Many of the evidences are existed which says that mulligan alone and ULTT(upper limb tension test) alone have the effective in cervical radiculopthy. So in this study want the effect of mulligan mobilization along with ULTT on pain and functional scale is being checked.

Group A(n=15) received conventional therapy as IFT(: Interferential Current Therapy) and neck exercises and along with that mulligan mobilization. Group B(n=15)received conventional and mulligan mobilization along with neural tissue mobilization. Outcome will assess in terms of VAS(Visual Analogue Scale) and NDI(Neck Disability Index). Treatment analysis will be done in between the groups and within the groups by using statistical test. The level of significance seen at 0.05.

The study concludes that MWM along with neural tissue mobilization leads to better improvement on pain and functional performance as compared to MWM alone is given as a manual therapy.