Panchakarma Treatment For Back Pain – Kati Vasti

More than 90% people in the world suffer from back pain at some point in their life. Back pain can restrict your movement and even simple daily routine activities can become a big task. Tasks like walking, sitting, sleeping or driving a car can be very painful for the body.

Many people are ignorant about the small indicators that our body tells us. If these small problems are not cured on time, then they can evolve into bigger and costlier diseases. They will eat up your time, energy and money. You will regret not taking care of these conditions when they could have been treated easily during the early stages.
Back and neck pain is also often ignored by people. They treat it as an annoyance and use different pain killers and pain relief sprays for instant relief. This condition keeps developing and even the pain killers become ineffective in treating the pain.

Major causes of back pain are spodylosis, osteoarthiritis, life style factors and biological factors. Lifestyle factors include sitting for too long, obesity, smoking and wrong posture while sleeping. Biological factors include spondylosis and osteoarthiritis. The lower back or the lumbar of the spine can also be affected due to various conditions such as spinal disk problems, muscle injury to the back, injury to the ligaments or degenerative diseases.

Ayurveda offers Panchakarma treatment for back pain. This treatment is very effective in alleviating the pain from the body and relaxing the muscles.

The panchkarma treatment in ayurveda for back pain is called Kati Vasti. In Kati Vasti treatment lukewarm medicated oil is poured on the back in an enclosed area. This oil transfers heat to the muscles of the back to relax and relieve the pain. The enclosed area is created using dough and applied on the lower back or the cervical area.

The medicated oil is removed using a cotton cloth and replaced with fresh lukewarm oil. This process is repeated for 30 minutes. The panchakarma treatment should be followed regularly for a week for it to start showing its effects. It should be continued as advised by an ayurvedic doctor in Jaipur.

Kati Vasti is beneficial in the following back pain conditions:

• Lumbar Spondylosis & Lumbar Spondylitis
• Slip disc
• Chronic back Pain
• Degenerative disorder of the spine
• Muscle Sprain
• Vertabral disc protrusion
• Sciatica Pain

Benefits of Kati vasti are:

• Strengthens the back muscles
• Maintains the Natural curve of the spine
• Alleviates back pain for many different back conditions from neck to hip.
• Allows the person to resume normal activities by relaxing the muscles and ligaments in the back

People should make lifestyle changes while undergoing the ayurvedic panchakarma treatment. They should start doing mild exercises and yoga aasanas beneficial during the treatment.