Avascular necrosis of the hip is a medical condition in which, due to various reasons, the blood supply to the head of the hip joint reduces drastically. This results in a gradual deterioration of the structure of the hip joint, resulting in a destruction of the hip bone head. This causes severe pain to the affected person and also results in impaired mobility of the hip joint. There are no modern medicines which can halt the progress of this disease or reverse the damage done to the hip joint. Modern treatment consists of controlling pain and graded mobility exercises of the joint. The standard treatment for advanced avascular necrosis of the joint is surgical correction, whereby the hip joint is either repaired or replaced.
Ayurvedic medicines can be utilised judiciously to treat avascular necrosis of hip. Ayurvedic medicines help to restore normal blood supply to the hip joint and also provide sufficient nutrition and calcium to the hip joint to help restore and reorganise the structure of the hip joint. In addition, pain also needs to be controlled effectively in order to maintain the morale of the affected individual. Local application of medicated oils and fomentation also helps in reducing pain to some extent. The main treatment of avascular necrosis of hip is to help reorganise the hip joint to the maximum extent possible. The amount of improvement obtained with medicines depends upon the degree of damage done when the patient opts for Ayurvedic treatment. However, irrespective of when treatment is commenced, all people affected with avascular necrosis of hip improve to some extent.
Usually, treatment is required from four to six months in order to give significant relief to the patient. Most of the people affected with avascular necrosis of the hip can resume their normal day-to-day activities and lead a near normal life. Ayurvedic treatment is thus very important in the treatment of avascular necrosis of hip.
The writer, Dr. A. A. Mundewadi, is available as an online Ayurvedic Consultant at www.ayurvedaphysician.com
