Effects of Decompression in Patient With Acute vs Chronic Lumbar Radiculopathy

The study will be done to evaluate the effectiveness of Lumbar Spinal Decompression in patients with acute vs chronic lumbar radiculopathy. Study design will be Randomized control trial and sample size will be 30. Duration of study was of 6 month, convenient sampling was done. Data will be collected from DHQ Daska were randomly allocated in three groups via lottery method, baseline assessment was done. Patients of both gender (male and female) from 18 to 50 years with lumbar radiculopathy diagnosed through X-ray and physical examination will be included. Patients with systemic soft tissue and bony diseases will be excluded. Intervention duration of 4 weeks, 3 sessions in a week. Decompression of lumbar spine will be given once in a week. Whole procedure of treatment program will given to patients and written informed consent will be taken. Basic tools will be Visual analog scale (VAS), SLR, ODI, Inclinometer. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 21