Wednesday 13 September 2017

Inevitable Role of Ayurveda in Sports Rehabilitation

Ayurveda and its Role in Sports Medicine


Ayurveda is the ancient system of medicine in India. Ayurveda acts as both preventive and curative and becomes the best science which plays a major role in sports medicine. The main aim of the sports medicine is to treat and rehabilitate the patient injuries to make them perform their daily activities quickly and smoothly. 

The Ayurveda Sports medications consist of diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of injuries that a person received while playing sports.

Generally, it is considered that sports people are more susceptible to the injuries and fractures. Sports people have a risk of wear and tear, fall or problems related to sports activities.The common sports injuries and solutions provided at Vaidya health care are listed below:
  • Back Injuries treatments for muscle strain, sciatica, lower back pain, scoliosis, slip disc
  • Hip & thigh Injury treatments.
  • Foot and Ankle Injuries 
  • Neck injuries neck stiffness, neck stiffness, and restricted movements
  • Shin and calf Injuries 
  • Elbow and arm injuries
  • Wrist and thumb Injuries 
  • Head injuries
  • Muscular rejuvenation
  • Rational and mind boosters
  • Treatments for ACL tear , knee pain,  patellar pain,  quadriceps tendon inflammation, articular cartilage injuries, medial menisci injury, ligament injuries, recurrent dislocations and other knee injuries.
  • treatments for shoulder dislocations, rotator cuff injury, clavicle fracture, shoulder pain, inflammation of biceps


Benefits of Ayurveda Sports injury management


The major benefits of Ayurveda sport injury management are:
  • Ease out the pain
  • Decreased disabilities
  • More Strength to joints
  • Improved functioning



  • Medications: Internal medicines are formulated for ashtanga,  hridaya,  and susrutha. These are effective in managing soft tissues injuries.
  • Therapies: External therapies compress of treatments such as upanaha, lepanas, and massages with or without essential oils, njavara kizhi, elakizhi and many more. One of the main sports injury treatment procedure is the Bandage or Bandhana. Bandages are available in various types. They help in joint immobility and stability which very important in sports injury treatment.
  • Varma Chikista: It is the typical ayurveda treatment that helps in joint function and mobility along with pain management in minimum time.
  • Anusastras: Agnikarma and sporadically rakthamoksha (panchakarma) are the main procedures in Anusastras. They are very effective in almost all joint related cases.
  • Physiotherapy: Through physiotherapy procedures, it is possible to achieve optimal recovery from pain & discomfort due to sports injuries.

Being an expert in the field and with proven clinical statistics, it is clear that management of sports medicine is highly effective with ayurvedic management when compared to other systems.

Vaidya Healthcare Hospital offers the best ayurvedic sports injury management in kerala. They also provide expert consultation and medications for acl tear treatment in kerala.
Write To: vaidyahealthcarekerala@gmail.com