INTRODUCTION: The backache, responsible for 50% of the skeletal muscle dysfunction, is one of the main otherwise the most recurrent cause of the pain, function incapacity and lobor. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effects of the neural mobilization and elongation in the flexibility on the neuralgia scene and in the functional activities of people with back pain. METHODOLOGY: Twenty sessions were fulfilled of a neural mobilization program and of a muscular elongation program with two distinct groups of people who showed chronic backache, divided in aleatory form. As instruments for analysis it was used the Analog-Visual of the pain Scale, the the distance finger-ground, the measurement angle of the knee flexion and the Roland Morris questionnaire. RESULTS: Nine people were analyzed with chronic back pain; five of them attended the group wherein the neural mobilization was used and four (4) were part of elongation group. Only the neural mobilization program showed significant effects. When the results of the programs were compared, no significant statistically difference was evident in the criterion estimated. CONCLUSION: For this sample, both therapeutic resources showed recovery to the variable analyzed, however only the neural mobilization showed significant results, being impossible, however, point out more efficiency of one method in respect to the other.
Chronic back pain; Neural mobilization; Muscular elongation
