Comparison of Treatment by Standard Physical Therapy with and without Radial Neural Mobilization in Cervical Spondylosis

Abstract

Treatment with physical modality, hot-cold pack, massage and traction still leave cervical spondylosis patients traces of certain conditions. Some also have shoulder pain, refer pain and numbness. This quasi-experimental research, pre-post test control group design was aimed at comparison of the treatments of hot pack, ultrasound wave and c-traction with and without the radial neural mobilization, on pain, numbness, and sensitive in patients with cervical spondylosis. Sample sizes were diagnosed with cervical spondylosis (n = 40) underwent physical therapy department in Ban Pong hospitals during January - May 2012, a time / day for 5 consecutive times. Collected data based on Visual Analogue Scale, numbness level and sensitive level, were analyzed using mean, paired t-test and independent t-test, chi-square, Mann Whitney U. After 5 consecutive evaluations, the experimental group had average score of pain, numbness, and sensitive lower than that before the experiment (p <0.001) and after all the trials, the experimental group had average scores on pain, numbness, and sensitive lower than those of the control group (p <0.05, 0.05 and 0.01), respectively.