AN ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF GRIDHRASI W.S.R. TO SCIATICA: A LITERARY REVIEW
Dr. Aakanksha Kushwaha*, Dr. Avadhesh Kumar, Dr. Anubha Srivastava and Dr. Prakash Raj Singh
ABSTRACT
The health is the supreme foundation for achievement of happy life. Ayurveda is the most ancient medical science of the world. It deals with preventive and curative aspect of disease and primitive aspect of health. The main purpose of ayurveda is to keep equilibrium of all the bodily tissues. At present, the lifestyle is gradually shifting away from healthy living, and therefore people fall victim of various diseases. Due to modernization and sedentary lifestyle large number of people are suffering from low back pain in today?s era. Low back pain is one of the common condition of musculoskeleton system disorder. About 40% cases of low back pain are of radicular origin. The condition resembles disease Gridhrasi mentioned in Ayurveda under vata vyadhi. Gridhrasi is a type of vata vyadhi which starts from hip and gradually comes down to waist, knee, shank and foot. In this disease vata gets aggravated due to various causes such as unhealthy Ahara and Vihara. As per the signs and symptoms seen we can correlata Gridhrasi with “SCIATICA” in the modern science. The disease Sciatica is named because of the involvement of sciatic nerve.
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