TY - JOUR AU - Tanveer, Fahad AU - Afzal, Adnan AU - Adeel, Muhammad AU - Shahid, Sana AU - Masood, Maham PY - 2018/02/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Comparison of Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides and Maitland Manual Therapy in Non-Specific Neck Pain on Numeric Pain Rating Scale and Neck Disability Index JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i4.2190 UR - https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2190 SP - 457-462 AB - <p>Incidence of neck pain is increasing day by day due to changed, sedentary, non-ergonomic environment&nbsp;and life style. This becomes the reason of an increased load of human resource and cost. To shed&nbsp;this load of resources and cost, it’s essential to sort out means which give real relief to this increasingly<br>significant problem. To compare outcomes of sustained natural apophyseal glides (SNAGs) versus Maitland&nbsp;manual therapy in improving non-specific neck pain. It was a quasi-experimental study design. The&nbsp;study was conducted in Chaudhary Muhammad Akram, Teaching &amp; Research Hospital, Lahore and Suriya<br>Azeem Teaching Hospital, Lahore within six months from June 2015 to December 2015. A total of 75 subjects&nbsp;with non-specific neck pain using non-probability convenience sampling technique who fulfilled the&nbsp;specific inclusion and exclusion criteria were randomly allocated to three groups; group 1 received SNAGs,<br>group 2 Maitland mobilization and group 3 conventional treatment. Baseline, post-intervention and follow&nbsp;up readings were taken through numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) for pain intensity, neck disability index&nbsp;(NDI) for functional status,goniometer for range of motion and manual muscle testing for muscle strength<br>of neck. The subject in each group were given twelve sessions, with three sessions a week. Data were analyzed&nbsp;through statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) 21. The results of each group showed pre-treatment&nbsp;pain intensity for group 1 was 7.04+1.338 that changed to 3.52+0.714 and for group 2 it was changed from&nbsp;7.52+0.872 to 5.16+0.850 and 7.16+0.943 to 5.12+0.781 for group 3. The NDI score for group 1, 2 and 3&nbsp;were 31.56+5.560, 25.040+7.086 and 25.560+5.477 that were changed to 13.120+2.759, 16.360+2.899 and&nbsp;12.600+2.020 respectively. The one way ANOVA test compared mean of three groups and p-value for pain<br>intensity after treatment was p=0.000 and for functional status p=0.000. The study showed that SNAGs mobilization&nbsp;was more effective in the management of non-specific neck pain and also conventional treatment&nbsp;improved functional status of neck than Maitland mobilization.</p> ER -