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Abstract
Disc disease today is the basic cause of most mechanical low back pain syndromes. Manipulation of the lumbar spine has been one of the acoepted lines of treatment for low back pain and soiatica sinoe pre-historic days. Research into spinal manipulation, especially clinical research, has been very slow. Reports of the effect of spinal manipulative therapy on patients with lumbar disc prolapse are very few with some conflicting results. Furthermore myelography done by many of them to show the effect, was proven ineffective in small and lateral disc protrusions. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of spinal manipulative therapy in the treatment of patients with lumbar disc prolapse, where thirty patients with lumbar disc prolapse (15 males and 15 females) W1re included in the study. The methods of manipulation applied are those described by Cyriax (1979). Assessment of case improvement was based partly on subjective criteria and partly on objeotive data, as compared with that before treatment.