HYDERABAD: Nihar Orthopaedic and Multi-speciality Hospital, Ameerpet, will start offering an integrated holistic therapy for people suffering from Osteo Arthritis in the knees (OA knee) and other chronic orthopaedic problems.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, hospital's managing director V. Prasad said the therapy was tried out quite successfully by John Ebnezar of the Parimala Hospital and Research Centre in Bangalore in a study spanning six years and 100 patients.

The therapy, titled Ebnezar's Integrated Holistic Therapy (EIHT) for OA knee, is an attempt to help people recover from the degenerative joint condition without having to undergo surgeries and costly conventional treatments. EIHT combines the positives of different streams of medicine, starting with meditation, pranayama, magnet therapy, physiotherapy, and aromatherapy before moving onto a modified version of Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT), Dr. Prasad said.

Time-tested

Dr. Ebnezar, explaining EIHT, said the session spanning three weeks, could later be continued by the patient at home.

This would be helpful for patients who cannot depend on allopathic and other drugs for a long period and those who cannot undergo knee replacement surgeries. The three-week session, which had proved highly effective in the six-year study at his clinic, would cost between Rs.6,000 and Rs.8,000, he said.

Those interested can contact Nihar Hospital at 8-3-214/2, Murthy Mansion, Srinivasa Nagar, Ameerpet and over telephone numbers 23756699 and 23748771 or by email at niharhosp@yahoo.co.in, Dr. Prasad said.

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