Oxidative stress, hemoglobin content, superoxide dismutase and catalase activity influenced by sulphur baths and mud packs in patients with osteoarthritis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2010 Background/Aim. It is weel-known that sulphur baths and mud paks demonstrate beneficial effects on patients suffering from degenerative knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) through the increased activity of protective antioxidant enzymes.
Jokić Aleksandar +4 more
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Virtual reality-based cue exposure therapy reduces psychological craving in men with methamphetamine use disorder: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Translational PsychiatryReducing psychological craving is critical for preventing relapse in methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of virtual reality (VR)-based cue exposure therapy (CET) and cue exposure with aversion therapy (CETA) in ...
Qiuping Huang +10 more
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Balneogynaecology in the 21st century: increasingly recommended primary and complementary treatment of chronic gynaecological diseases [PDF]
Medicinski Glasnik, 2021 Balneo-gynaecological treatment methods include external bath hydrotherapy, sedentary baths and topical dressings/cataplasm, and internal (intravaginal or intrarectal use of peloids and mineral water).
Dubravko Habek +4 more
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The impact of specific balneotherapy on the endocrine physio-pathological mechanism in obesity [PDF]
Balneo and PRM Research Journal, 2023 Obesity is a complex, multifactorial metabolic pathology, within the path of modification of the endocrine system plays a significant role. Changes in growth hormone (GH) and in-sulin growth factor (IGF) have been associated with obesity in various ways,
Liliana-Elena Stanciu +6 more
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The analyse of the antioxidant effect of natural peloidotherapy in aging process [PDF]
Balneo and PRM Research Journal, 2023 Medical research has developed remarkably in recent years, including the involvement of the glutathione peroxidase (GPx) family of enzymes in the course of human aging, with numerous clinical studies published in the literature reporting this particular ...
Liliana-Elena Stanciu +10 more
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Evaluating the effects of topical mud application in managing psoriasis symptoms-A case report
Indian Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine KLEU, 2023 Mud is a combination of various organic and inorganic minerals from natural substances, and mud therapy is considered a conservative treatment approach for psoriasis.
Arthi Balakrishnan +5 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Balneotherapy and exercise are potential factors influencing sleep through several physiological pathways and relaxing effects. This review aims to assess whether balneotherapy can improve sleep quality in concomitance or not with exercise.
Lucia Castelli +10 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Objective: To review the evidence regarding the clinical effect of spa therapy for rheumatic diseases, with particular attention given to association protocols between balneotherapy and rehabilitation interventions, and to support the literature research
Lucrezia Tognolo +7 more
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Mud therapy and rehabilitation - scientific relevance in the last six years (2015 – 2020) Systematic literature review and meta-analysis based on the PRISMA paradigm [PDF]
Balneo and PRM Research Journal, 2021 Background. Balneotherapy is a stimulation - adaptation treatment method applied in the forms of bathing, drinking, and inhalation cures performed with natural therapeutic factors, a method which is acting in three main ways: thermally, mechanically, and
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Variation of serum serotonin values under specific peloidotherapy in patients with degenerative pathology of the lumbar spine [PDF]
Balneo and PRM Research Journal, 2023 Serotonin is well known to be involved in the mediation of cognitive processes, but also in the regulation of multiple distinct physiological processes, such as pain. It is also involved in the modulation of nociception of the endogenous analgesic system.
Andreea-Alexandra Lupu +8 more
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