SURGICAL LAMINECTOMY, A FAILURE ?

DATE : 16/5/2014

PLACE : TIRUCHIRAPPALLY

Due to the special shape, i mean an erect shape of the human vertebrae, he is prone to a special type of disease called the BACK PAIN ! 

Almost 90% of the cases that come to an Ayurvedic hospital invoves disease involving spine and joints, and majority of them being what is put in our diagnosis column as THE LUMBAR DISC DISEASE(LDD-we prefer shorter formatt for everything) or THE CERVICAL DISC DISEASE.

When I pass through my memory of taking cases , intriguing patients, writing down their history of presenting complaints (all in the typical medical stereotypical manner, no compromise for that !), one very strange fact came to my observation which was also pointed out by one of my senoir docs, about the failure of surgery in treating back pain related cases. (He strongly advices every patient that comes to him not to take surgery)

I remember one such instant where, a patient with L4L5 disc prolapse, complaining of thigh pain and calf pain for left lower limb, which suddenly aggravated after subsiding , posing a surprise for us (our assumption .....or rather my assumption was that , he would have aggravted his condition himself by forward bending, which is not advised in such cases!) !

He adamantly requested for a discharge, and almost lost the confidence in the treatment ! Dammit, I almost had my heart in my mouth ! But to my rescue, at that very same instance there were two other patients who had performed a laminectomy treatment, and got bilateral radiculopathy , which was then unilateral, before the treatment !

Our doctor introduced these patients to the complaintee and he seemed somewhat satisfied as there was no other go !

But Ayurveda Panchakarma showed its effects two days later when the pain was controlled, and the radiating pain was not present even when the patient was asked to sit and walk for more than half an hour.

NOTE : THE ABOVE SAID ARE JUST OBSERVATIONS AND THE EFFICACY OF PANCHAKARMA THERAPIES OVER SURGERY HAS NOT YET BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED !