Hydrotherapy and Climatotherapy

Combining balneotherapy and health promotion to promote active and healthy ageing: the Balaruc-MACVIA-LR® approach

Scaling up and replication of successful innovative integrated care models for chronic diseases is one of the targets of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). MACVIA-LR® (MAladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif en Languedoc-Roussillon) is a Reference Site of the EIP on AHA. The main objective of MACVIA-LR® is to develop innovative solutions in o...

Climatotherapy in Japan: a pilot study

Twenty-nine urban inhabitants participated in a half-day climatotherapy programme at the moderate mountain area and lowland area in the northwest part of the main island of Japan. The current study was aimed to investigate physically and mentally the objective and subjective influence of our short programme, which was a prospective pilot study of single intervention. Blood pressure was signific...

Climatotherapy: there is life in the Dead Sea.

Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Combined Climatotherapy and Phototherapy

Background. Psoriasis impairs the quality of life (QoL) of patients as is in such severe diseases as cardiac failure or some malignant diseases. The aim of the study was to assess the QoL of Bulgarian psoriasis patients and its dynamics after different treatment approaches. Matherial and methods. The study was conducted in 93 patients (55 men and 38 women), mean age 45 years. The patients were ...

Rapid initiation of repigmentation in vitiligo with Dead Sea climatotherapy in combination with pseudocatalase (PC-KUS).

BACKGROUND Low catalase levels and cellular vacuolation in the epidermis of patients with vitiligo support major oxidative stress in this compartment. There is now in vivo evidence for increased epidermal hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) accumulation in this patient group by utilizing noninvasive Fourier Transform Raman spectroscopy (FT Raman). Epidermal H(2)O(2) can be removed with a topical appli...