Accumulation of stress and disruption of bodily rhythms through poor lifestyle destabalizes the nervous system and predisposes the individual to increased pain. Lastly, any factor that depresses the body's natural healing ability will slow the recovery from the experience of chronic pain. This is also because people can have the same disease for different reasons. For example, ten people could walk into a doctor's office with a headache and have it for ten different reasons. Likewise not everyone has chronic pain for the same reasons.
Ayurvedic diagnosis determines the imbalances in the divisions of the body's inner intelligence.
These underlying imbalances are the root causes of a condition and must be removed if real healing is to occur. By determining the causal imbalances at the basis of a disease Ayurvedic diagnosis helps physicians address the fundamental source of ill health in the individual. Since chronic pain can be influenced by many factors like diet, digestion, toxin accumulation, stress, exercise levels and daily routine the Ayurvedic approach to the condition is a comprehensive one that balances many physiological functions simultaneously. The fundamental imbalances at the basis of most chronic conditions Following are the general types of imbalances at the source of most chronic conditions and their role in chronic pain. The common modern medical approach to match drugs to symptoms does not completely address many of these factors.