Effect of Pulsed Magnetic Therapy Versus Phonophoresis in Discogenic Lumbar Radiculopathy Patients

Effect of Pulsed Magnetic Therapy Versus Phonophoresis on Sciatic Nerve Cross Section Measured by Ultrasonography in Discogenic Lumbar Radiculopathy Patients

Purposes of the study

To investigate the effect of pulsed magnetic therapy versus phonophoresis in discogenic lumbar radiculopathy patients

Patients will be randomized into either pulsed magnetic therapy group or phonophoresis group. Patients will receive the intervention for six weeks. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and post-intervention.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient age ranges from 20 -45

• Unilateral chronic lumbosacral radiculopathy

• Intervertebral disc herniation confirmed by MRI

• one of the following :

  1. H- reflex amplitude side to side difference 0.67 in absence of latency difference.
  2. H- reflex amplitude side to side difference smaller than 0.5 in p of latency difference.

  3 - Side to side H- reflex latency difference more than 1 msec. 4- Prolonged H-reflex latency more than 30 msec.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Systematic disease
• Lumbar canal stenosis
• Pervious surgeries
• Scoliosis
• Kyphosis
• Spinal fracture
• Bilateral symptoms
• Steroid injection