A Single Case Study on the Ayurvedic Management of Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

Cerebral palsy (CP) is considering as a non-progressive neuromotor  disorder of cerebral origin. It includes heterogeneous clinical states of  variable etiology and severity ranging from minor incapacitation to total  handicap. In India 1.77% of the population has some form of disability.  Spastic cerebral palsy is most common and incidence is 60% to 70% of  all cerebral palsy case. It cannot be correlated with any single disease or  condition in Ayurveda, as it is a multi-factorial disease with clinical  features of a wide variation. It can be taken as Vatavyadhi as far as its  etiology and symptoms are concerned. Here, an effort was made to treat  a 5-year-old male child with spastic diplegic. Cerebral Palsy using  multiple Ayurvedic treatment modalities. 3 Month oral medicine and  Pañcakarma procedures resulted in better improvement in sign and  symptom of cerebral palsy.