TY - JOUR AU - Sattar, Aroona AU - Waqas, Shoaib AU - Asim, Hafiz Muhammad PY - 2018/06/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Effect of First Rib Mobilization in Mechanical Neck Pain with Radiculopathy for Pain Relief JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 24 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v24i2.2523 UR - https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2523 SP - 768-770 AB - <p>Objective: To check the effectiveness of First Rib Mobilization (FRM) in mechanical neck pain with&nbsp;radiculopathy for pain relief.&nbsp;Methods: Fifty patients with age between 21- 60 years, who fulfilled the study sample selection criteria were&nbsp;registered in the study. After sample selection of 50 subjects (by scientific calculator) by using convenient&nbsp;sampling technique, a written consent was signed from each participant before any assessment and&nbsp;management. All subjects were treated by applying Maitland grade I, II first rib mobilization for a session&nbsp;comprising on 20 minutes. The subjects were treated thrice in a week for next 2 weeks. The participants were&nbsp;assessed before and after treatment. Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) was used to record pain severity&nbsp;level. A self-structured validated questionnaire was used to collect the demographics. Pain was assessed&nbsp;before and after first rib mobilization by using paired sample t-test was done to see the changes in the mean&nbsp;pain score.&nbsp;Results: There was a note worthy change in NPRS means before and after treatment in context of statistics&nbsp;which was (t=19.29 and p=0.000). All subjects showed significant level of improvement in pain and&nbsp;discomfort with FRM because the calculated p value was (p=0.000), which was less than the reference p&nbsp;value 0.05.&nbsp;Conclusion: The study concluded that FRM was an effective treatment for subjects with mechanical neck&nbsp;ache and radicular symptoms</p> ER -