Medical procedures - balneal therapy
Medical procedures:
Balneal therapy
Balneotherapy is the use of natural or artificially prepared mineral waters for medicinal purposes. Mineral waters contain mineral and organic components in high concentrations, due to which they have a beneficial effect on the human body.
Water enriched with one or another type of medicine has strengthening, activating, healing, soothing and other effects on the body. Currently, the popularity of balneotherapy is increasing, since it has almost no contraindications or side effects.
Balneotherapy is divided into three main areas:
- ✔ external use of mineral waters in the form of baths and showers;
- ✔ intracavitary procedures (intestinal, vaginal and other types);
- ✔ drinking mineral water as a medicinal drink.
The effect of balneotherapy is based on the ability of water and gases, salts and other substances dissolved in it to effectively influence various systems of the human body.
Indications for the procedure are diseases:
- musculoskeletal system;
- gastrointestinal tract;
- cardiovascular system;
- central and peripheral nervous systems;
- female genital organs;
- urological;
- metabolism, etc.
Contraindications to the procedure are:
- all diseases in the acute stage or during the period of exacerbation of the chronic process;
- pregnancy, bleeding and predisposition to it;
- malignant neoplasms;
- mastopathy;
- fibroids of the uterus;
- severe heart disorders;
- circulatory failure above stage 2, etc.