Efficacy of Spa Therapy, Mud-Pack Therapy, Balneotherapy, and Mud-Bath Therapy in the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis. A Systematic Review.

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common musculoskeletal disease in the world. OA is the result of an inflammatory and degenerative process affecting the entire joint. Osteoarthritis, especially involving the knee, has a relevant socioeconomic impact in terms of drugs, hospital admissions, work absences, and temporary or permanent invalidity.

Clinical researches on the efficacy of spa therapy in fibromyalgia. A systematic review.

Background: Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain, tenderness at muscle and tendon insertions point when digital pressure is applied, sleep disorders, chronic fatigue, depressive episodes, anxiety, and other functional somatic syndromes.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether balneotherapy with mineral waters and mineral-water containing mud is effective in the management of fibromyalgia.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature regarding spa therapy in the treatment of the fibromyalgia.

A study on the efficacy of treatment with mud packs and baths with Sillene mineral water (Chianciano Spa Italy) in patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis.

Mud-bath therapy plays a primary role in the treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis that has been recognised since antiquity. Numerous studies have demonstrated its clinical benefits and its effects on inflammatory mediators (interleukins), the immune system, cenesthesic factors (endorphins), and the diencephalic–pituitary–adrenal axis. This study was conducted to assess the efficacy of mud-bath therapy with mineral water from the Sillene Spring at Italy’s Chianciano Spa in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

Hemodynamic effects of a prostacyclin analog (iloprost) on portal flow velocity and volume and visceral artery circulation in patients with lower limb arteriopathy.

Previous studies demonstrated that iloprost improves the peripheral circulation. In this study, we examined, by Doppler sonography, portal flow velocity (cm/s) and volume (mL/min), and resistance index (RI) of visceral arteries in 23 patients before and after 7 days of iloprost infusion. Statistically significant hemodynamic changes were only seen in portal vein (pre-iloprost vs.

[First-aid treatment for acute myocardial infarction. Experience at the San Camillo Hospital of Rome].

Study Objective: The aim of the study is to verify: 1) the trustworthiness level of the diagnosis of AMI defined in Emergency Department (ER); 2) the frequency and the effectiveness (length of staying in hospital, mortality rate) of the invasive or not invasive treatment which are implemented in the ER area.

Methods: We have studied the crowding of the patients suffering from chest pain (CP) who asked the ER for assistance during the year 2000 and that of the patients with AMI diagnosed in ER (diagnosis at the admittance and at the discharge from the hospital, therapeutic procedures, staying in hospital, mortality rate).

Results: The patients suffering from CP have been the 5.