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Background: The ankle joint is the most commonly injured joint of the musculoskeletal system. Ankle sprain are the most common musculoskeletal injury. Dorsi flexion range of motion and pain deficit have been identified following ankle sprain. Talocrual joint mobilizations have been demonstrated to improve dorsi flexion range of motion. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate immediate effect of joint mobilization on ankle pain and ROM in chronic ankle sprain. Method: A randomized controlled study,54 participants with age group of 17-45 years were included in this study. All participants were randomly allocated into two groups. Group-A treatment group/mobilization group (n=27) and Group-B control group/exercise group (n=27). Group-A received mobilization and group-B received only exercise. Immediately after post intervention DFROM and NPRS were measured. All outcome measure were assessed pre-treatment and immediately post-treatment. Result: A total of 54 subjects were analyzed and the results were obtained using parametric t-test for within group and independent t-test for between group comparison. The results of this study demonstrate a greater mean increase of 19.37 in DFROM and 1.14 in NPRS found in group-A that mean increase of 18.40 in DFROM and 0.96 in NPRS found in group-B. Which shows that joint mobilization technique improves dorsiflexion range as compared to exercise. But there is no significant relevance with pain. Conclusion: This study has shown that the joint mobilization technique led to greater improvement in dorsiflexion range of motion as compared to exercise. Improve in pain remain same in both groups.