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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 10 Issue 1</issue_number>
<issue_period>2019 (January - March)</issue_period>
<title><b>Effect of motor control exercises with spinal manual therapy on pain, range of motion and postural balance in chronic low back pain</b></title>
<abstract>Low back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints in working population. Around 80% of individuals suffer with low back pain at least once in a year. Although many treatments exist in managing low back pain there are no concise evidences to support the findings. In recent years the commonest treatments of choice by many physical therapists are motor control exercises. These exercises have shown many evidences in managing low back pain. Spinal manual therapy is one of the treatments used by chiropractioners and manual therapists. There are no solid evidences on combination of spinal manual therapy and motor control exercises in low back pain. The aim of this study is to identify the effect of motor control exercises with spinal manual therapy on pain, range of motion and postural balance in chronic low back pain. This study is an experimental study involving 60 patients with chronic low back pain randomly allocated into two groups. One group received motor control exercises termed as (MCG) and the other group received Spinal manual therapy with motor control exercises termed as (SMTG). Pain was evaluated using numerical pain rating scale, range of motion with the modified schobers method and the dynamic postural balance using the Y balance test. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were done to evaluate the effectiveness. The pain value was 8.65 with p lessThan  0.001%, the range of motion was 7.21 with p lessThan  0.001% and Y balance scores were 12.8, 24.2 and 28.5 with p lessThan  0.001%. This study concludes that Spinal manual therapy with motor control exercises was shown to have significant effect when compared with motor control exercises</abstract>
<authors>ARUN.B, MOHAN GANDHI V AND ARUMUGAM.M</authors>
<keywords>Spinal Manual Therapy, Motor Control Exercises, Numerical pain rating scale, modified schobers test, Y balance test, Dynamic postural balance</keywords>
<pages>33-37</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
