Manual Cervical Traction and Natural Apophyseal Glides for Cervical Radiculopathy Patients

Cervical Radiculopathy is a clinical disorder of nerve root, and often is due to compressive or inflammatory pathology. There are number of different procedures which have been suggested for decreasing pain and disability in patients but manual therapy has been validated the effective technique. The objective of current research was to assess the comparative effectiveness of the Manual Cervical Traction and the Natural Apophyseal Glides on pain and disability among Cervical Radiculopathy patients. A parallel design, randomized controlled trial was performed on 72 patients in physiotherapy department, Mayo Hospital Lahore. Participants were randomly allocated into two groups after baseline testing. Group A received natural apophyseal glides and baseline treatment and group B received manual cervical traction and baseline treatment. Treatment period was of 3 weeks with 3 weekly sessions on alternate basis. Assessment was done before treatment at baseline and then by second and third week using numeric pain rating scale and neck disability index. SPSS version 25 was used to analyzed the data.