Efficacy of neural mobilization in sciatica

The study was conducted on 30 patients, between age group of 40–65 years who were diagnosed cases of radiating low back pain. Subjects were randomly allocated to either group A or B. The patients of group A (n = 15) were treated with neural mobilization along with conventional treatment, whereas group B (n = 15) was administered only conventional treatment. ROM and pain were assessed using goniometer and Visual Analog Scale(VAS). Neural mobilization along with conventional treatment was found out to be more effective in relieving low back pain (t = 7.643) as well as improving the range of SLR (t = 5.848) than conventional treatment alone.