Abstract

GREEVA STAMBH (CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS) – A DISEASE REVIEW

Deepika Divan* and Rekha Bajpai

Abstract

Cervical Spondylosis is a disease occurs as a complication of chronic degenerative changes in the cervical spine. In Ayurveda, a condition called as Greeva Stambh having cardinal feature of stiffness of the neck, which exactly suits with Cervical Spondylosis. Acharya Charak described the disease first by the name of “Greeva Stambha” among the eighty types of Vata Nanatamaja Vikar. This condition increasing day by day, and found frequently in people of middle-age group. It also affects the people, who undergo excessive exertion, those with bad sitting posture, and frequent travellers often end up with trauma to neck bones leading to spondylosis. It is a wear and tear disease and is experienced as neck pain, stiffness, headache, paraesthesia, numbness, vertigo etc. In this article aetiopathogenesis, clinical features and management of disease from Ayurvedic classics has been discussed, which help to understand the disease.

Keywords: Cervical Spondylosis, Greeva Stambh.