TREATMENTS
Mud therapy (PELOIDOTERAPHY)
Mud properties: sulfides minerals, hydrated with sodium chloride aqueous solution.
Used locally, mud procedures have anesthetic, anti-inflammatory and resorbing action, helping to stimulate regenerative processes, improve tissue nutrition and trophicity, change the level of regenerative oxidative processes, especially those of a degenerative rheumatic nature. More frequently, local applications (poultices) are used - applications on limited regions of the body, at different temperatures.
The therapeutic effect depends on their temperature. Thus, at a temperature of 40-44 ° C, the resorbing action predominates, and at a temperature of 35-37 ° C, the calming effect and neuro-vegetative regulation. The duration of the mud procedure is 15-20 minutes. The effect of mud therapy on the body is not limited to the period in which it is applied to the patient, but is felt later (up to 24 hours with cumulative effect).
Indications:
– degenerative rheumatic locomotor disorders (osteoarthritis), inflammatory (ankylosing spondylitis)
– lumbago, lumbar discopathy, operated disc herniations, tendonitis, fibrosis - post-traumatic and neurological sequelae
– chronic gynecological diseases, endocrine diseases, dermatological (psoriasis, eczema).
Warm salt bath (37 ° C)
The spring that feeds the basin comes from Sărătura Gherla. It has a NaCl concentration of 240g / l.
External treatment associates the chemical effect of salt on the skin (skin hyperemia, stimulating reflex mechanisms) with physical therapy, having beneficial effects by changing the behavior of peripheral skin thermoregulatory and balancing neuro-vegetative disorders. The main benefits of salt baths:
– increases joint mobility, muscle flexibility, muscle relaxant effect
– sedative effect, general relaxation
–antiseptic effect on the skin
– aerosols for the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases
Indications:
– post-traumatic, degenerative locomotor disorders (osteoarthritis of the spine, knees, hips, hand, foot), abarticular (tendinitis, tenosynovitis, bursitis, fibromyalgia) inflammatory (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis outside the outbreak)
– neurological disorders (peripheral nerve damage)
– peripheral veno-lymphatic circulatory disorders
– dermatological conditions (psoriasis)
– respiratory diseases (rhino-pharyngitis, sinusitis, asthma, chronic bronchitis).
Hydrokinetotherapy
Hydrotherapy is a method of using water for therapeutic purposes, being a form of external treatment. Water is used for physical properties by thermal factor (35-36 ° C) and pressure factor (hydrostatic pressure and discharge into water), exerting a mixed mechanical and thermal action, influencing homeostasis reactions by thermoregulation.
Indications:
– Post-traumatic sequelae: fractures and surgery of the spine and lower limbs; sprains, muscle and tendon injuries, neurological injuries;
– Orthopedic disorders such as growth dystrophies: scoliosis, kyphosis; after surgery requiring mobilization with joint discharge;
– Rheumatic diseases: degenerative joint injuries (especially osteoarthritis of large joints), inflammatory rheumatism (outside the clinical and biological outbreak), disco-vertebral suffering (lumbago, lumbosciatica, dorsalgia, cervico-brachial neuralgia)
– Peripheral and central neurological disorders, myopathies
Physical therapy
Physical therapy is a form of individualized therapy that, starting from static and dynamic exercise programs, can be used in prophylactic, curative and recovery therapeutic programs. Mechanical stress requirements must be applied in a balanced manner with regard to balance at rest. This therapeutic group also includes tractions and manipulations, specific stretching or force mobilization techniques.
The objectives of physical therapy:
– restoring muscle strength and increasing muscle endurance;
– increasing and adapting the capacity for effort;
– improving the function of coordination, control and balance;
– relaxation;
– correcting body posture and alignment;
– increase in joint mobility;
- respiratory reeducation;
– sensitivity re-education.
Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy is a form of conservative physical therapy that uses various forms of electricity (galvanic electricity , low frequency electricity, medium frequency electricity), forms of energy derived from high frequency electricity (shortwave, microwave, ultrasound, laser ) or low frequency (magnetic fields).
This form of therapy cannot correct the etiological links but can improve and control:
– pathophysiological elements: inflammation, edema, hypotonia, muscular hypotrophy, hypersympathotonia, pain;
– clinical, symptomatic and functional elements: pain, muscle contracture, joint stiffness;
– the trophicity of the denervated muscles in peripheral type paralysis, through the exponential low frequency current;
– painful and dysfunctional somatic syndromes
Forms of electrotherapy:
– electrostimulation electrotherapy: galvanic type electricity circuits (simple galvanization, ionogalvanization, galvanic bath), low frequency with pulses (exponential currents, faradic and neopharyngeal currents, diadynamic currents, TENS), medium frequency (interference currents);
– high frequency electricity: short waves and microwaves acting through high frequency electromagnetic fields with penetration into the depths of the tissues, having a deep thermal effect (phenomenon of tissue endothermia or diathermy);
– ultrasound - causes a high frequency micromassage, mainly with mechanical then thermal effects and important therapeutic effects;
– laser therapy - non-specific biostimulation effects (analgesic, vasculotropic)
– low frequency magnetic fields (magnetodiaflux) - through the effects of non-specific regulation on the central and neuromuscular nervous system, improves various cellular metabolic processes.
Ultrasound therapy
Ultrasound is a mechanical undulating phenomenon that determines the combined action, especially of mechanical type, then of thermal type, performing in the initial phase a high frequency micromassage. At higher doses it fights stasis, edema and the tendency to fibrous organization. Through the thermal effect it determines a significant vasodilation with important effects in the metabolism of the connective tissue. Stimulates sensitive nerve fibers, motor and vegetative causing: - analgesic effect by acting on nociceptive terminations
– spasmolytic effect by effect on motor fibers
– sympatholytic effect by action on peripheral sympathetic fibers by reflex mechanism
– rheumatic pathology of chronic degenerative or inflammatory type (apart from the onset)
– post-traumatic sequelae, somatic painful syndromes
– peripheral or central neurological disorders
– peripheral circulatory disorders (stage I and II obliterative arteriopathy)
Laser therapy
Low power lasers are athermic with a biostimulating effect.
Therapeutic effects:
– analgesic effect - is more effective on superficial joints, has low effectiveness in deep pain. Analgesia is obtained by stimulating the endorphin system.
– biostimulating and tissue trophic effect - stimulates protein synthesis and energy metabolism; stimulates cell trophicity on all structures; regenerates articular cartilage, bone tissue (role in strengthening fractures); accelerates the regeneration of sectioned nerve fibers; regenerates damaged epithelia and skin structures (atonic ulcers, varicose ulcers, postarsal sequelae; stimulates specific and nonspecific immunity;
– cardiocirculatory effects - vasodilation, increase the speed of blood flow (promotes the resorption of edema, elimination of catabolites, fights veno-lymphatic stasis), regeneration of microcirculation (arteritis, arteriopathy), antithrombotic effect, normalizes blood pressure;
– anti-inflammatory and anti-edematous effect;
– specific and non-specific immunity stimulating effect
Massage
Massage is a systematic and scientific grouping of manipulations performed manually on the tissues of the human body in order to influence the nervous system, muscle and general circulation.
Local massage effects:
– local hyperemia with improved tissue nutrition, increased rate of elimination of stasis fluids and tissue catabolites;
– decreases intramuscular pressure (superficial massage)
– increases local tissue temperature (by 2 ° C)
– local release of histamine and heparin (erythematous and vasodilating effect)
– increases tissue resorption
– relieves pain, reduces muscle contracture and hypertension
General effects:
– stimulates the cardiovascular and respiratory system
– increases the basal metabolism
– improves general condition, sleep, reduces muscle fatigue
– improves the functions of internal organs
– psychotropic role, general relaxation
– antinociceptive by endogenous pain control
Shock-WAVE Therapy
Shock waves are high-energy pressure waves that are concentrated at a certain point in the body after they have been generated outside it, eliminating the pain caused by calcifications in the tissues with the immediate reduction of tension in muscle and ligament tissues. and stimulating the healing process by activating cells called osteoblasts.
The treatment is very effective in rebellious pain in the heel, caused by inflammation of the plantar fascia (plantar fasciitis) and exostoses ("beaks" or calcaneal spurs), pain in the elbow caused by overload (epicondylitis), painful diseases of the shoulder joint (calcified tendinopathy), knee pain in athletes (patellar tendinitis), as well as other musculoskeletal and abarticular disorders. The side effects of the treatment are very rare, they resolve quickly and consist of the appearance of patches, edema and erythema. Between applications it is recommended to rest the affected area.
The therapy lasts about 5-7 minutes, and the sessions are done at intervals of 3-5 days depending on the condition. 3 and 6 treatment sessions are required.
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