Abstract:

The familiar name of deep Gluteal syndrome is piriformis syndrome. The deep Gluteal syndrome most of the times goes undiagnosed and unidentified though being a most common cause of  non disc originated cause of sciatica. Female preponderance to male is higher in the falling prey to deep gluteal syndrome associated with pain, restricted range of motion and disability. Hence is the need to seek the appropriate treatment regimen for the same. In this study an intervention is carried out to compare the conventional treatments like piriformis stretching and ultrasound with neural tissue mobilization of sciatic nerve along with ultrasound and piriformis stretching. The 30 patients, male and female fulfilling the study criteria were divide in to group A and B with simple random sampling. Group A was given the neural mobilization along with ultrasonic therapy and piriformis stretching and the control group B received ultrasonic therapy with piriformis stretching. Both groups received treatment of 45 minutes daily/5 session/week for 2 months. The paired and unpaired t tests were used by SPSS to anlyse the intra and intergroup comparison. The results reflected that the outcome measures VAS, RMBQ ( Roland Morris Back Questionnaire) and SLR improved with very significant improvements in group A than in group B. This suggests the importance of addition of neural tissue mobilisation in deep gluteal syndrome. KEY WORDS: deep gluteal syndrome, piriformis syndrome, neural tissue mobilization, piriformis stretching, ultrasonic therapy, Roland Morris Back Questionnaire, Visual Analogue Scale, Straight Leg Raising.  

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