Cervical Traction, Passive Accessory Intervertebral Movements and Active Strength Training in Cervical Radiculopathy

"Time: 20 minutes Duration: thrice a week for 4 weeks.~Position:~The patient is in supine lying. The head and neck of patient are held in the hands of the practitioner, and then a gentle traction of a pulling force is applied. Intermittent periods of traction can be applied, holding each position for about 10 seconds. Traction is usually applied at about 20-30 degrees of neck flexion."

"Time: 20 minutes Duration: thrice a week for 4 weeks~Position:~Patient lying in prone. Therapist stands to side of patient placing their pisiform/ulnar surface of hand over the selected spinous process (SP) with their wrist in full extension.~Other hand placed on top of hand to reinforce. Therapist's shoulders should be directly above the SP with elbows slightly bent. Therapist uses their body weight to apply a PA force to the selected SP by leaning their body over their arms and performing rocking movements to provide oscillatory movements of the vertebra."

"Time: 20 minutes Duration: thrice a week for 4 weeks. The progression of exercises will be done using different colors of Thera-band indicating varied resistance. (A) Resistive lateral flexion of uninvolved side.~Position:~The patient is in sitting position. By the help of thera-band patient will actively flex the neck against resistance on the uninvolved side."