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Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to the current issue Skip to site footer Open Menu JOURNAL OF THE PAKISTAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association * HOME * ABOUT JPMA * ABOUT US * PAST EDITORS-IN-CHIEF * EDITORIAL BOARD * EDITORIAL POLICY * FOR AUTHORS * MANUSCRIPT PROCESSING * INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS * SUBMIT A MANUSCRIPT * REFERENCE GUIDE * FOR REVIEWERS * INTERESTED IN REVIEWING * JPMA REVIEWERS * AHEAD OF PRINT * ISSUES * CURRENT ISSUES * DECEMBER - 2023 * NOVEMBER 2023 * OCTOBER - 2023 * SEPTEMBER 2023 * AUGUST 2023 * JULY 2023 * ARCHIVES * SUPPLEMENTS * CURRENT SUPPLEMENTS * PAST SUPPLEMENTS * NEW & EVENTS * SEARCH * TILL JUNE 2023 * ONWARD 2023 Search CURRENT ISSUE Vol. 74 No. 1 (2024): JANUARY JANUARY CONTENT Published: 2023-12-25 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK * FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Dr. Fatema Jawad 1-1 * Full Text Article EDITORIAL * TIME TO TREAT THE CLIMATE AND NATURE CRISIS AS ONE INDIVISIBLE GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski 2-4 * Full Text Article ORIGINAL ARTICLE * COMPARISON OF POSITIONAL DISTRACTION WITH STABILISATION EXERCISES VERSUS STABILISATION EXERCISES ALONE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY. 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