Computer wizards turn to ayurveda for stress relief.

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Tired techies de-stress with ayurveda

 

Ramesh Babu

 

Thiruvananthapuram, November 10, 2005

 

 

Every kid, hooked on his computer, dreams of an IT job. But this dream job comes

with its share of baggage — health risks like computer vision syndrome, carpel

tunnel, lumbago, cervical spondylosis and insomnia. So where does a tired techie

go for rejuvenation?

 

The answer is the Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda College in Thrissur. Founded by the late

Ashtavaidyan Neelakandhan Mooss, this college has developed a combo therapy to

treat maladies that afflict frequent mouse-pushers and it claims to have treated

hundreds of techies. It even has outlets in Bangalore that are popular with the

city's IT professionals. In fact, if you visit the one in Koramangala, you may

find Infosys mentor Narayanamurthy's wife Sudha doing her bit to help the

overworked techies.

 

Narayanamurthy tells HT: “I don’t suffer from any of the problems because I

hardly work one or two hours on the computer. But I advise those who work more

than eight hours to undergo treatment here.”

 

College principal R.V.K. Varma says the conditions listed above are the five

most common ailments. Computer vision syndrome affects vision, carpel tunnel

syndrome cripples the wrist and lumbago or backache is identified with poor

postures on chairs. Cervical spondylosis affects the neck while insomnia is

associated with over-workload, deadlines and related stress.

 

“The treatment is a combination of Ayurveda drugs for internal and external use,

yoga and music therapy,” Dr Varma says, adding: “Most of the remedies are there

in our ancient texts. But we have finetuned them to meet the challenges posed by

modern devices.”

 

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1542894,0002.htm

 

 

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