The Quality of Life of the Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis before and after Balneotherapy

Rheumatic diseases are the most common reasons of partial disability and the fourth leading reason of the full disability. The rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by synovium inflammation with subsequent joints harming. The complex RA treatment has several objectives—symptomatic relief, suppression of active inflammation, prevention of tissue damage, improvement of physical function, self-reliance, and improvement of the quality of life. The integral part of the therapeutic approach to patients with chronic musculoskeletal disease is a spa treatment, which is having a long-lasting tradition in their area. Spa treatment has positive impact on the quality of life improvement. The purpose of the present work: The main objective of this work is the assessment of spa therapy effects on patients ́ quality of life with rheumatoid arthritis. Compare the results in quality of life assessment with men and women before and after the spa treatment. The investigation was created with 40 participants. The female and male ratio was balanced in the group 20: 20. The average age was in their complete investigated group 61.95. The male age variance was from 39 to 78 years of age and with female group the youngest patient was 45 and the oldest 76. Patients completed Jáchymov Spa treatment with 21-day length. The quality of life index in the whole group of patients after completing the spa treatment reached higher values as before the spa treatment. The result index of the quality of life with men before spa treatment was 51.6, and the spa treatment was 63.1. With women was the result index of quality of life before spa treatment 48.7 and after the spa treatment it reached 60.4. Patient’s quality of life was higher in their sample due to spa treatment completion compared with results before the spa treatment. Spa treatment positively affects the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.