Abstract
Background: The most prevalent disorder affecting the spinal cord is lumbar radiculopathy. The incidence of thiscondition is estimated between 3% and 5% of the population and it impacts both male and female equally. Thegoal of this present study is to compare the effectiveness of dry needling to interferential therapy [IFT] in terms ofreducing pain and increasing the lumbar range of motion in patients with lumbar radiculopathy.Purpose: To determine the effect of dry needling on patients with lumbar radiculopathy in reducing pain andincreasing lumbar ROM compared to interferential therapy.Materials and Methods: 30 subjects participated and pre assessment and post assessment was taken usingNumerical Pain Rating Scale [NPRS] and the Modified-Modified Schober Test [MMST]. For both groups, theintervention period lasted for 2 weeks and the entire study procedure was carried out from November 2022 toApril 2023.Result: This study showed an extremely satisfied statistical significance difference between post-test values ofboth groups (p<0.0001). However, the experimental group showed substantially greater statistical significancethan the control group in terms of the decrease in pain levels and the increase in lumber ROM.Conclusion: The study concluded that intervention provided to the experimental group was more effective thanintervention provided to the control group.
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