Study on the promotion of health through balneotherapy
Lolita Rapolienė et al.
May 2015
Anti-stress
Fango treatment
Healing & thermal therapy
Peat & healing mud
Thalasso treatment
Lithuanian researchers Rapolienė, Razbadauskas and Jurgelėnas conducted a randomized clinical trial on the effects of thermal water .
The sample of 130 seafarers was divided into a balneotherapy group and a control group. The former received a two-week treatment with 108g/l of concentrated mineral water.
After two weeks, a positive effect on the well-being of the test subjects was observed, stress symptoms occurred 60% less, while their intensity was reduced by 41% and their control improved by 32% . The health risks caused by stress and the general health risk decreased, while the available resources increased.
In summary, it can be concluded that balneotherapy with mineral-containing thermal water alleviates stress and improves health. This makes the treatment particularly suitable as a preventative treatment.
The most important information on the study at a glance
- Indications
- Stress, general health risks
- Institution
- Seamen's Health Care Center, Taikos 46, LT-91213 Klaipėda, Lithuania
- Title
- Study on the promotion of health through balneotherapy
- Brief description
- The study shows that balneotherapy significantly reduces stress and improves general well-being and health.
- Original title
- The Reduction of Distress Using Therapeutic Geothermal Water Procedures in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
- Link to the study
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383502/
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