Studying the effect of adding traction therapy to conventional physical modalities in the treatment of lumbar radiculopathy

Investigating the effect of adding teletherapy to conventional physiotherapy treatments on improving pain, reducing functional disability, and increasing active range of motion in patients with lumbar radiculopathy

A controlled, double-blind, randomized, phase 3 clinical trial with a parallel group on 50 patients, randomized using a randomized permutation block design.

The study is conducted at the Mobasher Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Individuals with lumbar radiculopathy, after meeting the conditions and inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study, are invited to voluntarily participate in the research project. After consenting to participate in the study, the personal characteristics form and inclusion and exclusion criteria and demographic questionnaire including age, gender, occupation, symptoms, clinical examinations, and medical history of the individual are completed by the examiner and divided into two experimental and control groups using randomized permutation blocks.

Inclusion criteria: Patients with unilateral lumbar radiculopathy based on clinical examination and MRI_Onset of symptoms more than one month before study entry. Exclusion criteria: Active spinal fracture_ History of previous spinal surgery

Intervention group: Routine physiotherapy treatment (TENS + McKenzie and stabilizing exercises) + teletherapy (Tecar 560G device, 10 sessions, 20 minutes per session including 10 minutes of capacitance at 600 kHz and 10 minutes of resistance at 450 kHz) Control group: Only routine physiotherapy treatment similar to the intervention group, without teletherapy

Severity of low back and lower limb pain_Low back disability index

In this study, a simple randomization method will be used to implement random assignment. In this way, 30 consecutive numbers (from 1 to 30) will be written separately on paper and placed in a container. Then, each participant in the experiment will be asked to randomly select one of these 50 numbers from the container containing the numbers. People who chose numbers 1 to 25 will be assigned to group A ("Intervention Group 1"), people who chose numbers 26 to 50 will be assigned to group B ("Intervention Group 2").

The study is conducted in a double-blind manner. To reduce bias in the study, the main researcher as the evaluator will not divide the samples into two groups, so he will not be aware of the grouping of the individuals, and the grouping of the samples and the intervention will be done by the physiotherapist, and the information obtained from the data will be provided to the statistical evaluator in a coded and non-identifiable form. Therefore, this study is a double-blind type.

A large portion of the data is potentially shareable.

Access to data will be available immediately after the final article is published.

All researchers, researchers and clinical experts will be allowed to access the data of this study.

It will be welcomed to conduct extensive analysis on the data of this study along with the data of other studies to write meta-analysis review articles.

For more information, please send an email to Dr. Saeideh Kakavand. All correspondence will be sent to the email address entifad@gmail.com.

After making a phone call and submitting a request via email, a final response will be sent within at least 1 month.