Low back pain (LBP) is the most frequent complaint encountered in clinical practice. Exercises and manual therapy prescription are common physical therapy treatments prescribed for the patients presenting with chronic low back pain. The interventions will establish the future direction for practitioners in choosing the manual therapy or repeated exercises as effective prescription and provide a basis for future research
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Pain Intensity
Timeframe: Pain intensity will be recorded as baseline at the time of recruitment and change in pain intensity will be observed at follow up at the end of 3rd week of treatment.
Lumbar Range of Motion
Timeframe: Lumbar Range of Motion will be observed as baseline at the time of recruitment and change in ROM will be observed at follow up at end of 3rd week of treatment.
Level of Functional Disability
Timeframe: Functional Disability will be recorded as baseline at the time of recruitment and change in score of functional disability will be recorded at the end of 3rd week of treatment.
Change in Fear Avoidance Beliefs
Timeframe: Fear Avoidance Beliefs will be observed as baseline at the time of recruitment and any change in Fear Avoidance Beliefs will be observed at the end of 3rd week of treatment.
Change in Muscle Activation of Lumbar Multifidus (LM) and Transversus Abdominis (TrA)
Timeframe: The Thickness of muscles will be recorded as baseline at the time of recruitment and change in thickness representing activation will be measured at follow up at the end of 3rd week of treatment.