Protocol based management of common sports injuries by integrated approach of Sandhi Marmabhighata - An open labeled clinical trial.

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Sports injuries are the second most common type of accident after domestic (3.7%) and occupational accidents (3.1%). There is an average annual estimate of 8.6 million sports and recreational related injury incidents with an age-adjusted rate of 34.1 per 1000 populations. Common sports injuries are musculoskeletal injuries i.e. Sprains, Strains, Joint injuries, soft tissue injury (STI). The sports injury in Ayurveda can be co-related within dissimilar facets of trauma related ailments. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of a protocol-based management of common sports injuries using an integrated approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Integration of Ayurveda and Physiotherapy procedures was done and phase wise treatment was framed. Total 30 patients of age between 10 and 60 years ful-filling the inclusion criteria were selected for the present study. The patients were treated with Phase wise protocol consisting of three phase's i.e. Inflammatory (1-5 days), Stabilization and recovery (6-10 days), Muscle strengthening (11-17 days). Assessments were done through various variables like pain, tenderness, swelling, local temperature, manual muscle testing (MMT) and range of motion (ROM) at different time points. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Wilcoxon matched pair test was used to assess within group results for subjective parameters and paired t-test (Dependent t-test) was used to assess for objective parameters. RESULT: The study showed that integrated treatment approach has given significant results in the parameters like pain, loss of function, tenderness, local temperature, MMT and ROM. CONCLUSION: Phase wise management through integrated protocol is effective in the management of common sports injuries.