| Balneotherapy of children
with complications of craniocerebral injuries] [Article in Russian] Babina LM, Arzumanova VV, Iordanova II. Children with aftereffects of craniocerebral trauma have received sanatorium treatment including exercises, massage, mineral baths of different chemical composition. Adequate therapeutic measures taken in due time diminish the number of the aftereffects and their severity. PMID: 11868531 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
| Clin J Pain. 2002
Sep-Oct;18(5):302-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12218501&query_hl=6
Contribution of individual spa therapies
in the treatment of chronic pain. Strauss-Blasche G, Ekmekcioglu C, Vacariu G, Melchart H, Fialka-Moser V, Marktl W. Department of Physiology, University of Vienna, Australia. gerhard.strauss-blasche@univie.ac.at OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the contribution of individual spa therapies administered during a period of 3 weeks on measures of well being and pain in a sample of patients with chronic back pain. DESIGN: One hundred fifty-three patients with chronic back pain undergoing inpatient spa therapy in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria, participated in the study. According to the prescription of their spa physician, patients underwent two or more of the following treatments: mud packs, carbon dioxide baths, massages, exercise therapies, spinal traction, and electrotherapy. The outcome measures were general pain, back pain, negative mood, and health satisfaction. Regression analyses were conducted to predict the 4 outcome measures at the end of spa therapy and at 6 weeks' follow-up for all therapies applied. The pretreatment outcome measure, age, and sex were controlled for by entering them into the analysis. RESULTS: Patients showed significant improvements in all 4 outcome measures. The prediction of improvement was generally small: only 1% to 11% of the change of the outcome measures could be explained by the type and number of therapies received. On a short-term basis, mud packs and exercise were found to be associated with a greater improvement in mood, whereas a greater frequency of massage therapy and carbon dioxide baths was associated with a smaller improvement in health satisfaction. On a long-term basis, exercise therapy and spinal traction were associated with a greater reduction in back pain. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that, in addition to the individual therapies, other factors relating to spa therapy as a whole must contribute to overall treatment outcome. In addition, the results support the efficacy of exercise therapy for chronic back pain.
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| Walls E.
Historical Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Hot Springs, Arkansas and healing have been almost synonymous since the Indians lived in the area. From the end of World War I until the early 1940s, venereal disease patients flocked to Hot Springs for treatment. The primary focus of this paper is to tell the story of the facilities built to provide treatment. The government at both the federal, state, and local levels had to accommodate the great demand for treatment. The U.S. Public Health Service Clinic and Camp Garraday at Hot Springs were two major facilities built to meet that demand. Almost forgotten today, these two establishments afforded many patients the opportunity for healing unavailable in local situations. The Clinic provided the best treatment available and performed needed research studies on venereal disease during its peak years. Publication Types: Historical Article PMID: 7868479 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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| Spas mineral waters and
hydrological science in twentieth-century France
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sis. 2001 Sep;92(3):451-8 . Weisz G. Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 3655 Drummond Street, Montreal, Quebec H3G-1Y6, Canada. This essay examines the survival of waters therapy in twentieth-century France with a view to understanding the conditions that make a therapy convincing in one national context and not in another. Part of the explanation for this survival has to do with the size and power of the spa industry. Where this industry was strong and economically powerful--as it was in France--its survival became a national priority. Of equal importance, however, was the role of the medical elite. In twentieth-century France, a small but influential group of elite physicians served as the chief architects of the continued survival and development of water cures. The primary mechanism for this process was a massive and successful campaign to introduce hydrology into the curriculum of medical schools. Once this was achieved, a large corps of academic hydrologists were in a position to produce significant amounts of convincing hydrological science that seemed to demonstrate the varied physiological effects of mineral waters. By the 1940s mineral waters had enough scientific visibility to ensure their inclusion without controversy in the national health insurance system that was being set up.
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| Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech
Fiz Kult. 2001 Sep-Oct;(5):20-3.
[Possibility of using intensive peloid
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| Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S
Korsakova. 2001;101(4):29-31.
[Balneotherapy of children with
sequelae of brain injury]
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| Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 1995
Jan;25(1):43-5. [Development of immersion therapy in Mongolian medicine] [Article in Chinese] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11639636&query_hl=1 Saijrah C.
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| Status of microcirculation
in elderly hypertensive patients during treatment with sodium chloride
baths] [Article in Russian] Abramovich SG. Microcirculation was studied with biomicroscopy of the eye bulbar conjunctiva's vessels in 50 patients with essential hypertension stage II aged 60-80 years. They took half baths with sodium chloride mineral water at Irkutsk health resort "Angara". The treatment resulted in improvement of perivascular and intravascular end blood flow. PMID: 11898373 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |