Description
Neck Therapy / Treatment
45 minutes: $175 each therapy
Generally Recommended: 7 therapies continuous days
In Sanskrit, ‘Greeva’ means neck and ‘Basti’ means to retain. Greeva Basti is an ancient healing modality, used to address acute and chronic neck problems. In the modern-day, sedentary lifestyle involving sitting hours in front of computer screens can cause neck pain and other conditions, Greeva Basti effectively addresses neck pain and related painful conditions, providing long term benefits.
Greeva Basti is a soothing neck therapy where a generous quantity of herbal oils are retained on the neck to relieve occasional pain, inflammation, and stiffness. The warm herbal oil allows absorption into muscles, ligaments, and tendons, thereby relaxing the neck and healing any underlying conditions, calming pain and stiffness. The therapy additionally de-stress the entire body.
Greeva Basti Therapy is an Ayurvedic, localized deep-heat therapy. It involves building a dough ring over the cervical spine and retaining warm, medicated herbal oils inside it for 30–45 minutes. This technique deeply nourishes tissues, relieves muscle spasms, and restores neck mobility.
Key Benefits
- Pain & Stiffness Relief: Alleviates chronic neck pain, upper back tension, and tension headaches by releasing contracted muscles.
- Joint & Nerve Healing: Lubricates dry cervical joints, softens rigidity, and is highly beneficial for managing conditions like cervical spondylosis, disc compression, and minor herniated discs.
- Mobility Enhancement: Enhances blood circulation to the spine, promoting a better range of motion.
- Structural Support: Helps address conditions like compression fractures in the vertebrae and can provide secondary relief for frozen shoulders.
When to Avoid (Contraindications)
While non-invasive and generally safe, Greeva Basti Therapy should be avoided in cases of:
- Severe Infections or Open Wounds: Any broken skin, acute rashes, or skin infections in the cervical region.
- Acute Fractures or Dislocations: Unhealed severe trauma that requires strict immobilization.
- Severe Neurological Deficits: Advanced disc herniation with significant nerve loss, numbness, or severe loss of reflexes (where surgical intervention may be required).
- High Fever or Acute Infections: Systemic illness where heat therapy can aggravate the conditions
Benefits*:
- Relieve mild to moderate neck pain
- Helps in muscle spasms
- Beneficial in spondylosis
- Decreases stress
- Improves mood
- Disc prolapse
- Improves flexibility
- Softens rigidity
- Disc degeneration
- Helps relieve occasional neck pain and inflammation
- Helps should pain and stiffness
- Injury related neck pain
- Helps in pinched nerve
- Helps relieve the burden of stress and congestion in nerves, bones, and muscles, relaxes and rejuvenates
- Helps heal compression fractures and frozen shoulders
- Improves blood circulation in the neck
- Helps relieve occasional neck pain and inflammation
- Heals past injuries, inflammation and recurring neck pain, gently and effectively.
- Improves flexibility
- The medicated oil enhances flexibility and promotes the smooth movement of the neck
- Lubricates joints
- Greeva Basti lubricates the joints of the necks and helps address stiffness, allowing smooth movement.
- Softens rigidity
- Helps relieve the burden of stress and congestion in nerves, bones, and muscles, relaxes and rejuvenates them
- Improves blood circulation
- The therapy enhances active blood circulation around the neck and strengthens the spine.
- Helps heal compression fractures and frozen shoulders
- Greeva Basti addresses underlying conditions like compression fractures and frozen shoulders.
Scientific Research
While large-scale clinical trials are limited, smaller, peer-reviewed studies suggest Greeva Basti Therapy is effective for managing neck-related ailments:
- Cervical Spondylosis Efficacy: A study published in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) on cervical spondylosis patients found that a 14-day regimen of Greeva Basti Therapy yielded a 65.70% statistically significant improvement in the Neck Disability Index (NDI).
- Comparative Studies: A comparative trial published in the Journal of Applied Bioanalysis found that combining Greeva Basti Therapy with intermittent Raktamokshan (a traditional bloodletting/detoxification technique) resulted in significantly better reductions in inflammatory markers (such as ESR and CRP) and better overall functional outcomes than Greeva Basti Therapy alone
*These statements are not evaluated by Food and Drug Administration. These services are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.