ISSN (Online) : 2277-4572
Author(s): Prasad Mamidi *, Kshama Gupta
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by joint swelling, joint tenderness, and destruction of synovial joints and leads to severe disability and premature mortality. The hip joint involvement in RA patients may develop rapidly and leads to joint destruction and joint replacement. Here we are reporting a case of chronic RA with bilateral hip involvement came with severe pain, stiffness, weakness at both thighs and hips and got advised for surgery. The Ayurvedic diagnosis and line of treatment of ‘Urustambha’ was applied and found that, patient got relief from pain, fever, reduction in stiffness and weakness of thighs, improved range of motion at hip and knee joints and able to do her routine activities with minimum support along with improvement in quality of life after doing continuous panchakarma procedures like, udwartana, vasti and choorna pinda sweda for the period of more than five months. Ayurvedic panchakarma procedures especially udwartana along with internal medicines, seems to provide relief even for the patients who got advised for hip replacement surgery
