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The study group received the MET with conventional therapeutic exercises and the control group received the conventional exercises alone for four weeks (thrice a week, for 30\u201340 minutes duration). Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve distal latency, pain intensity, response to the prone knee bend (PKB) test and pelvic compression test were assessed. RESULTS: Patients allocated to the MET group had improvements compared to the controls in pain intensity (MD: -1.66, 95%CI -2.39 to -0.94), distal latency (MD: -0.66, 95%CI -0.94 to -0.36), and knee range of motion in the PKB test (MD: 19.5\u2218, 95%CI 13 to 26.1) with high treatment effects, Cohen\u2019s d \u2013ES = 1.71, 1.86 and 2.24 respectively. However, there was no between-group difference for the pelvic compression test (p= 0.41). 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