Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects

Balnea
2012, núm. 6, 58-59
Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects
- In addition to the crenotherapy facilities, Spanish Spa Facilities have fitness
gyms, electrotherapy, paraffin, Kneipp cure, cryotherapy, reflexotherapy or acupuncture
included in their installations or programs...
- All Spas have a Medical Director in charge of which 31 of them have more
than one doctor.
- We recorded a total of 434 health sciences professionals, of which 163 are
doctor, 132 physiotherapists, 96 quiromassagers, 27 physical education technicians
and 16 belong to other diplomas, plus peoples bathroom attendants.
- All the establishments surveyed, except one, work with MSS pathology. In 71
establishments AR-ENT pathology was treated.
- The crenotherapy techniques used in MSS are: simple bath, bubble bath,
whirlpool bath, circular shower, Scottish shower, underwater jet ... and in RS-
ENT: puffs, spray, wash, shower or nasal and/or pharyngeal spray, or
tubotimpanic insufflation.
- The results of functional rehabilitation and the fields are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 - Centers/Functional Rehabilitation
Program Nº of Centers Field Nº of Centers
RFL 28 Sanitary 89
PRFL 21 Social-sanitary 71
RFR 24 Health Tourism 89
PRFR 14
RFL:Rehabilitation functional locomotor. RFR: Rehabilitation functional respiratory. PRFL: Locomotor
functional rehabilitation program. PRFR: respiratory functional rehabilitation program
Conclusions
The spa establishments may have crenotherapy facilities and not crenotherapy
All bathing establishments studied, except one, work in the Sanitary field and
all, but one, collaborate in Health Tourism Programs
All have at least one doctor.
The most frequently treated MSS pathologies are: chronic inflammatory rheumatism,
degenerative processes, para-articular problems, metabolic, psychogenic, and
posttraumatic after effects and postoperative neuralgia. And the AR-ENT are rhinitis,
laryngitis, sinusitis, tracheitis, rhinosinusitis, bronchitis, pharyngitis, asthma.
In addition to the centers’ crenotherapy treatment, one third of them offered additional
functional rehabilitation programs in MSS and a quarter of them offered
specific programs in RS-ENT.
Keywords: Functional reeducation, Crenotherapy, Musculoskeletal system, Respiratory
system, ENT, Spa centers
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