An observational prospective study to find out the converging and diverging factors in the treatment protocol of sciatica among the physicians of Panchakarma department at Amrita school of Ayurveda

Sciatica is a condition where there is distribution of pain along the course of sciaticnerve, i.e, which the pain radiates from the low back to buttock and legs.Sciatica of contemporary medical science is closely equivalent to Gridhrasi byits similarity in the course of pain.

On considering sciaticaas an independent disease it is a relatively common condition with lifetimeincidences varying from 1.6%-43%. The chance of Sciatica is expected toincrease in the upcoming years due to sedentary life style, the increased useof computerization and also due to increasing body weight, mental stress, hecticwork schedules and transportation methods.

Ayurveda treatment claims high success rate inSciatica. Even though the symptoms exhibited by the patients are same,treatment protocol changes from physicians to physician may be based on logicin assessing dosha and dushya.

So the aim of the study is  to find out the converging and divergingfactors in the treatment protocol of Sciatica among the physicians.

20patients each of 3 physicians in Panchakarma IPD of Amrita school of ayurveda,suffering from  sciatica will be selectedand the treatment and condition will be observed. Later convergence anddivergence will be recorded. After analyzing all these the overall convergenceand divergence can be listed out with the logic behind it.