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Suffering from a rheumatic disease: why don't you try the Dead Sea?
The Dead Sea represents an unique reservoir of salts that provides a special potential for outdoor Balneotherapy. Patients suffering from any kind of arthritis undergo their treatment including:
- bathing in the Dead Sea
- bathing in pools containing Dead Sea water
- bathing in pools containing thermal sulfur spring water
- self application of black mud at the Sea shore
- envelopment of warm mud packs to the joints
- medical massage.
In addition to these active therapies, the ambient environmental conditions, such as:
- uniformly warm temperatures
- a low level of relative humidity
- high barometric pressure
- oxygen-rich air
- bromide-rich atmosphere
- and floating in the Dead Sea water, aid to the improvement and the well-being of the
- patients and their joints.
Experience and careful examination of the patient help the physician to decide in which quantity and frequency of the above mentioned therapies and therapeutic skills have to be applied. Usually, Dead Sea baths and self mud applications are used on a 2- or 4-time daily basis, where the other procedures are provided only 2 or 3 times a week.
With an improvement of symptoms allows this, medications like pain killers and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents can often be reduced, and sometimes be stopped completely. However, disease modifying drugs have to be continued (or may be slowly reduced), as the results rarely appear before the two or three first weeks of the Arthritis treatment.
We are proud to bring here the opinion of one of the most prominent world expert in Arthritis treatment. This leaves no doubt about the capabilities of this natural treatment:
Balneotherapy has been successfully used to treat various rheumatic diseases. At the Dead Sea, this modality appears to produce a statistically significant improvement in both male and female patients with fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis. It has also a beneficial effect on patients with osteoarthritis of the knees, an effect that lasts at least 3 months.
The Arthritis Treatment include:
- Anamnesis, medical examination and follow-up visits by a senior physician
- Assessment of the personal treatment schedule (sun and sea)
- All medications needed for the disease treated are included
- Nurse exam and treatment as needed (In the clinic)
- Final medical examination and evaluation of results, final medical report
- Relaxation exercises (AT), as prescribed
For patients suffering from Arthritis, the treatment schedule should include, in addition:
- Hand-Grip testing and others as needed
- Dead Sea water bath (in- or outdoor)
- Sulfur bath
- Self application of black mud
- Envelopment of warmed black mud
- Ice-pack
- Medical massage
- Use of the hotel facilities (sauna, Jacuzzi, fitness room and sport)
- Special medications are not included
The medical team requests a summary of the medical status of each Patient prior to arrival in order to confirm treatment.
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