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Background: The understanding of back-pain as one of the commonest clinical presentations, made the path to the present study. More than three-quarters of the world’s population experience back-pain at some time in their lives Purpose: The present study has evaluated the selected Naturopathic therapeutic procedures on individuals with low back-pain. Methods: Thirteen patients were selected for the study and randomly divided into two groups, viz., Group A, Naturopathic group and Group B, Control group. One patient discontinued. Naturopathic group was treated with mud pack, aromatherapy massage with Eucalyptus oil, acupressure, steam, wet trunk pack, exercises, relaxation and breathing exercises. Advice for life style and diet was given for patients of both the groups. The effect of the therapy was assessed subjectively and objectively. Particular scores drawn for Naturopathic group and control group were individually analyzed before and after treatment and the values were compared using standard statistical protocols. Results:Naturopathic intervention revealed 100% relief in both subjective and objective parameters (i.e., 6 out of 14 parameters showed statistically highly significant P < 0.01 results, while 8 showed significant results P < 0.05). Conclusion: Statistically highly significant results of this study point out the successful management of the multi factorial low back-pain with a multi focused Naturopathic treatment approach. Such encouraging results may pave the way for a future study on a large sample in a longer duration incorporating clinical investigations.

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Abstract
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Criteria for Selecting Patients
Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
Study Design
Management of patients
Mud pack
Oil massage and Aromatherapy massage
Acupressure
Reflexology
Therapeutic Steam
Wet trunk pack
Spinal bath
Exercises
Relaxation
Breathing exercises
Lifestyle and diet plan
Advice to the patients
Clinical assessment and grade of total effect
Subjective criteria
Objective Criteria
Criteria for Assessing the Total Effect
Statistical Analysis
Results
Effects of the treatments
Discussion
Conclusion
References

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• AM Pushpika Attanayake [ MPhil Scholar, PGIPBS, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka ] Corresponding Author
• KIWK Somarathna [ Department of Kayachikitsa, Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo, Rajgiriya, Sri Lanka ]
• GH Vyas [ Maharshi Patanjali Institute for Yoga, Naturopathy Education and Research, Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar, India ]
• SC Dash [ Institute of Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar, India ]

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• 간행물명

  Journal of Naturopathy [한국자연치유학회지]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  2287-5417

• 수록기간

  2012~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 512 DDC 610