Dead Sea and Tiberias as health resort areas for patients suffering from different types of arthritis
Affiliations:
(1) Departement of Medicine D, Soroka Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Source: Harefuah. 2006 Feb;145(2):117-22, 165.
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Publication date:
2006 Feb
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Language: Hebrew
Countries: Israel
Location: Dead Sea, Tiberias
Correspondence address: Sukenik S : ssukenik@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
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Article abstract
In the last two decades balneotherapy and climatotherapy have been shown to be effective in cases of inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis and non-inflammatory arthritis such as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia. This review presents different modalities of balneotherapy, their mechanism of action, side-effects and major contraindications. The article also summarizes all the publications on clinical trials conducted in the Dead Sea and Tiberias.