Santosh Medical College and Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
*Corresponding author: Deepak Raghav, MPT (Musculoskeletal), Principal. Santosh Medical College and Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Address: H. No. 368/7 Subhash Nagar, Gurgaon -122001, Haryana, Ph.no.: 9868315824, Email ID: dr.deepakraghav@gmail.com
Online published on 6 April, 2015.
To evaluate the effect of different nerve mobilization on wrist joint proprioception in normal individuals.
To compare the effect of different nerve mobilization on wrist joint proprioception.
A large body of research has been conducted to analyze the effect of neural mobilization in Entrapment neuropathy, chronic pain and as a diagnostic tool for various upper extremity pain disorders. But none of the studies have been done to see the effect of neural mobilization on wrist joint proprioception. As peripheral nerves are the mediators of proprioception so there is still a need to examine the effect of different nerve mobilization on wrist proprioception.
90 subjects were taken for the study. Subjects were randomly recruited into three groups. For all the Subjects pre wrist proprioception measurement of dominant hand were taken by the Proprioceptometer then ULTT1, ULTT2, ULTT3 were given to Group A, Group B and group C respectively. After neural mobilization post reading of wrist joint proprioception was taken.
The decrease (improvement) was found highest in Group B (5.3%) followed by Group A (5.2%) and Group C, the least (4.2%). The significance level was set at p≤0.05.
The neural mobilization is effective in increasing wrist joint proprioception.
Neural mobilization, proprioception, wrist, median, radial and ulnar nerve
