An evaluation of the effect of differing lengths of spa therapy upon patients with osteoarthritis (OA)

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-64

  Vaht, Mai ^a   Birkenfeldt, Reinhold ^b   Übner, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Mud treatment; Osteoarthritis; Spa therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALNEOTHERAPY; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALNEOLOGY; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549124398     PISSN: 17443881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Arden N., and Nevitt M.C. Osteoarthritis: Epidemiology. Best Prac and Res Clin Rheum 20 (2006) 3-25
2. Fautrel B., Hilliquin P., Rozenberg S., Allaert F.A., Coste P., Leclere A., et al. Impact of osteoarthritis: results of nationwide survey of 10,000 patients consulting for OA. Joint Bone Spine 72 (2005) 235-240
3. Schmidt K.L. Scientific basis of spa treatment in rheumatic diseases. Rheum Eur 24 (1995) 136-140
4. Nasermoadeli A., and Kagamimori S. Balneotherapy in medicine: a review. Environ Health Prev Med 10 (2005) 171-179
5. Veinpalu E, Nikitina A, Veinpalu L, Trink R, Vaht M. On the efficiency of pelo-balneotherapy of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis in case of its early use in a health resort. In: 33rd World Congress of the International Society of Medical Hydrology and Climatology. Karlovy Vary, Luhačovice, Prague, 4-11 October 1998, p. 115-16.
6. Schlossmann K. Estonian curative sea-muds and seaside health resorts (1939), Boreas Publishing Co, London
7. Wigler I., Elkayam O., Paran D., and Yaron M. Spa therapy for gonarthrosis: a prospective study. Rheum Int 15 (1995) 65-68
8. Nguen M., Revel M., and Dougados M. Prolonged effects of 3 week therapy in a spa resort on lumbar spine, knee and hip osteoarthritis: follow-up after 6 months. A randomized controlled trial. Br J Rheum 36 (1997) 77-81
9. Forestier R. Magnitude and duration of the effects of two spa therapy courses on knee and hip osteoarthritis: an open prospective study in 51 consecutive patients. Joint Bone Spine 67 (2000) 296-304
10. Cimbiz A., Bayazit V., Hallaceli H., and Cavlak U. The effect of combined therapy (spa and physical therapy) on pain various chronic diseases. Comp Ther Med 13 (2005) 244-250
11. Altman R., Asch E., Block D., Bole G., Borenstein D., and Brandt K. Development of criteria for the classification and reporting of osteoarthritis: classification of the osteoarthritis of the knee. Arthritis Rheum 29 (1986) 1039-1049
12. Altman R., Alarcon G., Appelrouth D., Bloch D., Borenstein D., Brandt K., et al. The American College of Rheumatology criteria for the classification and reporting of osteoarthritis of the hand. Arthritis Rheum 33 (1990) 1601-1610
13. Altman R., Alarcon G., Appelrouth D., Bloch D., Borenstein D., Brandt K., et al. The American College of Rheumatology criteria for the classification and reporting of osteoarthritis of the hip. Arthritis Rheum 34 (1991) 505-514
14. Lequesne M., Mery C., Samson M., and Gerard P. Indices of severity for osteoarthritis of the hip and knee. Scand J Rheum 65 (1987) 85-89
15. Tischler M., Rosenberg O., Levy O., Elias I., and Amit-Vazina M. The effect of balneotherapy on osteoarthritis. Is an intermittent regimen effective?. Eur J Internal Med 15 (2004) 93-96
16. Pratzel H.G., and Schnizer W. Handbuch der medizinischen Bäder. Indikationen-Anvendungen-Wirkungen (1992), Karl F Haug Verlag, Heidelberg (in German)
17. Bogolyubov VM, Ulashchik VM. Mehanizm fiziologicheskogo i lechebnogo deistvija mineralnych vod i lechebnych grjazei. In: Bogolyubov BM, editor. Kurortologija i fizioterapija, Vol. 1. Moscow: Meditsina; 1985. p. 162-176 (in Russian).
18. Schepetkin I., Khlebnikov A., and Kwon B.S. Medical drugs from humus matter: focus on Mumie. Drug Dev Res 57 (2002) 140-159
19. Übner M., Treuman M., Viitak A., and Lopp M. Properties of humic substances from the Baltic sea and lake Ermistu mud. J Soils Sediments 4 (2004) 24-29
20. Bellometti S., Giannini S., Sartori L., and Crepaldi G. Cytocine levels in osteoarthritis patients undergoing mud bath therapy. Int J Clin Pharm Res XVII 4 (1997) 149-153
21. Bellometti S., Cecchettin M., and Galzigna L. Mud pack therapy in osteoarthritis changes in serum levels of chondrocyte markers. Clin Chim Acta 268 (1997) 101-106
22. Binder A. Krankengymnastischen prinzipen degenerativer erkrankungen. In: Weintögl G., and Hillebrand O. (Eds). Handbuch für der Kurarzt (1995), Verlag der Österreichischen Ärztekammer, Wien 174-181 (in German)
23. Marktl W. Allgemeine balneology. In: Weintögl G., and Hillebrand O. (Eds). Handbuch für der Kurarzt (1995), Verlag der Österreichischen Ärztekammer, Wien 41-46 (in German)