Mud-therapy

Mud-therapy is made of three essential steps:

• mud spreading
• thermal bathing
• sweating

Mud is directly applied on your skin at a temperature that can span from 38° to 42 °C for 15’-20’ min.

After spreading and following a cleaning shower, you can dive into a thermal bathtub at a temperature that can span from 36° to 38 °C for 8’-15’ min.

After drying with warm towels, you can sweat and relax to complete your biological balneotherapy.

You can end with a massage to reactivate skin circulation.

Each hotel has got its own Spa facility.

Mud Therapy and Osteoarthritis

Mud spreading is particularly good at controlling inflammation and relieving you from jointache. Tests show a whole mud therapy cycle can significantly reduce circulating levels of substances that can speed up and worsen local inflammatory cartilage damaging. Thanks to the active microorganisms’ elements of ripe mud, your cartilage’s cell matrix – the so-called chondrocyte metabolism – will get better quickly. Mud effects therefore protect you from degenerative arthropathy.

Mud Therapy and Osteoporosis

Science tells mud therapy helps to rebalance your bone tissue’s metabolism and its remineralization, working on both local and systemic mechanisms. Mud balneotherapy should be matched to exercise in order to keep a correct mineral density, causing an anabolic effect. Results have shown this type of treatment helps increasing bone mass comparable to the same one obtained by pharmacotherapy – yet optimized. A daily moderate physical activity can be practiced into our thermal pools during your stay, alongside Spa treatments, to get your psychological well-being back and improve your life quality.

Mud Therapy and Extra-articular Rheumatism

Ache is particularly painful in certain kinds of rheumatic diseases, sometimes matched to other symptoms such as strain, sleep- and gastrointestinal system issues, badly affecting life quality and leading to depression and temp- disability. Because of that, Centro Studi Termali “Pietro d’Abano” has studied bromyalgia in order to decrease pain’s sensitivity. Mud therapy has no cons on your digestiveintestine system so it can be added to your specific drug prescription, limiting its amount and still getting the same good results. In fact, mud therapy can help your physiological system to react better against stress and to rebalance it.

Side-effects

Mud balneotherapy should not be suggested to people suffering from heart failure, ischemic heart disease, severe peripheral and cerebral vascular disease, renal disease with renal failure, an acute phase of inflammatory disease, epilepsy, hyperthyroidism and malignant tumors. You should also avoid mud spreading about lower limbs’ varicose veins especially when worsened by ulcers and phlebitis, during pregnancy and menstrual flow’s first days. There is no side effect by spreading mud about metallic prosthesis on joints or about medical screw-plates against osteosynthesis.