Mobilização neural na neuralgia ciática: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The neural mobilization is one of the most used techniques in skeletal neural-muscle system, especially in the treatment of sciatica nerve pain, which are a major cause of musculoskeletal dysfunction, present in 50% of the population, considered one of the reasons for labor pains. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of neural mobilization technique sciatic nerve for low back pain. Materials and methods: This study is the evaluation of a patient with the Slump and SLR test to check the reproduction of painful symptoms in the path of the sciatic nerve, where the patient was submitted to treatment with neural mobilization technique combined for sciatic nerve after positive of two tests. Results: after evaluation by Slump and SLR tests, presenting the positive test for sciatica, reproducing pain and decreased range of motion, was applied to neural mobilization technique combined to the sciatic nerve for 4 sessions in the period of 1 month where the patient improved in the first weeks, but then had recurrence of sciatica. Conclusion: We conclude that needs to be more studies to prove the efficacy of combined neural mobilization technique of the sciatic nerve, since this isolated technique can bring significant results to improve the painful picture of sciatica nerve pain; however this study showed that neural mobilization used was not sufficient to improve the patient's pain condition in question.