TY - BOOK AU - Hebatallah Mohammed Said Zaghloul AU - Hala Rashad Elhabashi , AU - Ibrahim Magdy Elnaggar , AU - Lilian Albert Zaky , TI - Effect of spinal flexion versus spinal extension exercises on pain severity, H - reflex and centralization phenomenon in lumbosacral radiculopathy / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hebatallah Mohammed Said Zaghloul , KW - Low back pain KW - Lumbosacral radiculopathy KW - Spinal flexion exercises N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Musculoskeletal Disorders; Issued also as CD N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of spinal flexion exercises versus spinal extension exercises , on low back pain severity, leg pain severity, centralization phenomenon, H - reflex latency and amplitude in patients with unilateral lumbosacral radiculopathy as a result of disc herniation at the level of L5-S1. The results of this study revealed that both types spinal flexion and extension exercises were significantly effective for reduction of low back and leg pain severity as well as decreasing H - reflex latency and increasing amplitude in patients with unilateral lumbosacral radiculopathy as a result of disc herniation at the level of L5 - S1 ER -