12/10/2023
Ayurvedic strategies including manual therapies, lifestyle and nutritional advice, dietary supplements, medication, yoga, and purification technique are often used to treat osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee
here are few highly reputed published articles which shows the role of Ayurveda in treating various types of arthritis specially chronic conditions
1. in the study case, Blood parameters CRP comes down from 5.24mg/dl to 0.47mg/dl (16/8/12) and RA comes down from 640IU/ml to 317 IU/ml. , Symptoms reduced to half and venous ulcers got healed.
2. in this study, 290 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of RA over a 7-year period, and once every 6 weeks evaluated Ayurvedic treatment outcomes on the basis of American Rheumatism Association criteria. statistically significant improvement found in all parameters.
3. in this study , 150 patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee, following American College of Rheumatology criteria were evaluated on ayurveda include tailored combinations of manual treatments, massages, dietary and lifestyle advice, consideration of selected foods, nutritional supplements, yoga posture advice, and knee massage. all accessed on various standard scales like McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), pain disability index, a visual analog scale for pain and sleep quality, a pain experience scale, a quality-of-life index, a profile of mood states, and Likert scales for patient satisfaction, patient diaries, and safety.
4. The study was conducted to develop and validate a novel ama score based upon constitutional features of ama as depicted in ayurvedic literature as a disease activity indicator in RA. "Ama" Assessment Instrument could find a slight correlation with acute phase reactant ESR and DAS-28
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