CRITICAL REVIEW ON THE AYURVEDIC PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE AND SPORTS MEDICINE
Dr. Radhakrishna Bishwal, Dr. Athulya Arun, *Dr. Sanghamitra Samantaray, Dr. Shantunu Kumar Das, Dr. Dhanya T. and Dr. Bandana Dhal
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda is one among the oldest traditional medicines, in which we can get significant information about vyayama and sports medicine. As there is no direction correlations a lot of close observations and analysis of Ayurvedic samhitas we get ideas about sports medicines. Sports medicine has been emerged as an important branch of medicine, which deals with physical fitness, preventions and treatments of sports injuries. In samhitas references about vyayama, its physiology, indication, contraindications, limits, vyayama guna, exercise regimens, injuries like sandimukta, kanda bhagna and its managements are available. Ayurveda will offer comprehensive and detailed references about genetic endowment, state of training and nutrition of an athlete. Ayurvedic sports medicine can be applied in the level of preventive, curative and rehabilitative therapy. The aim of this article is to understand basics of Ayurvedic sports medicine and its applicability in present era.
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