An open labelled randomized controlled clinical study to evaluate the effect of vardhamana balamoola rasayana in gridhrasi w.s.r to sciatica syndrome.

This study is an open labelled randomized controlled clinical study to evaluate the efficacy of balamoola rasayana and lashuna rasayana in vardhamana course in 30 patients diagnosed with gridhrasi/sciatica syndrome. The patients will be randomly divided into 2 groups of 15 each by adapting permuted block randomization method. Group A recruited subjects will be administered with vardhamana lashuna rasayana and group B recruited subjects will be administered with vardhamana balamoola rasayana .Total duration of study will be 48 days for group A and 61 days for group B. study will be conducted at Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Ayurveda hospital kuthpady,udupi,karnataka,india. the primary outcome measures will be assesed based on changes in the signs and symptoms of gridrasi,changes in VAS scale, improvement on the basis of SLR test,bregards test, lasegues sign,bowstring test,femoral nerve stretch test,flip test and secondary outcome measures will be assessed based on the improvement in objective parameters like pain-greenough and fraser scoring method,neurological deficit assessment,assessment of functional ability-sugarbaker and barofsky clinical mobility scale,functional disability assessment-oswestry disability assessment questionnaire.Hence an effort has been planned through this clinical study evaluate the effect of vardhamana balamoola rasayana in gridhrasi.