Effects of moderate mountain hiking and balneotherapy on community-dwelling older people: A randomized controlled trial

Proßegger, Johanna; Huber, Daniela; Grafetstätter, Carina; Pichler, Christina; Weisböck-Erdheim, Renate; Iglseder, Bernhard; Wewerka, Gerti; Hartl, Arnulf

doi:10.1016/j.exger.2019.04.006

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“…These spas have experienced multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams (e.g., spa physicians, physical therapists, physiotherapists, and rehabilitation nurses) to provide and adjust the rehabilitation program to the individual patient's needs. Although spa therapy has yet no evidence specific to COVID-19, it and its interventions (e.g., balneotherapy, peloid therapy, aquatic exercises, and exercise) have been demonstrated beneficial in improving fatigue, dyspnea, pain, and depression/ anxiety, and in increasing quality of life of patients who have these symptoms, in many reviews and numerous clinical studies (Kamioka et al 2020;Khaltaev et al 2020;Munteanu et al 2019;Baldi et al 2015;Fioravanti et al 2010Fioravanti et al , 2018Rapolienė et al 2020;Király et al 2020;Gay et al 2020;Bernetti et al 2020;Varzaityte et al 2020;Dilekçi et al 2019Dilekçi et al , 2020Eröksüz et al 2020;Yuan et al 2019;Cozzi et al 2020;Gálvez et al 2020;Corvillo et al 2020;Pérez-Fernández et al 2019;Peultier-Celli et al 2019;Hanzel et al 2019;Yücesoy et al 2019;Özkuk and Di lekçi 2019;Masiero et al 2020c;Tenti et al 2020;Koçak et al 2020;Özkuk and Uysal 2019;Cantista and Maraver 2020;Cheleschi et al 2020;Özkuk and Ateş 2020;Min et al 2020;Prossegger et al 2019;Persiyanova-Dubrova et al 2019). Interestingly, hypothetical and theoretical backgrounds of using spas as rehabilitation facilities for post-COVID-19 patients have been discussed in several articles (Macca...…”

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Public interest in spa therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Google Trends data among Turkey

Kardeş

2021

Int J Biometeorol

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In Turkey, spas are widely used and preferred by patients who are seeking relief from their disability and pain. The spa therapy program is partly reimbursed by the national health insurance system. The objective of the present study was to leverage Google Trends to elucidate the public interest in spas in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Google Trends was queried to analyze search trends within Turkey for the Turkish term representing a spa (i.e., kaplıca) from

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Public interest in spa therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Google Trends data among Turkey

Kardeş

2021

Int J Biometeorol

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“…Sample size was estimated using health-related quality of life data from a former intervention study [ 61 ] (ISRCTN18092043). The sample size for the study was approximated with the statistical packages G*Power (G*Power Ver.…”

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Mountain Hiking vs. Forest Therapy: A Study Protocol of Novel Types of Nature-Based Intervention

Pichler

Freidl

Bischof

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Introduction: The global rise of urbanization has much triggered scientific interest in how nature impacts on human health. Natural environments, such as alpine landscapes, forests, or urban green spaces, are potential high-impact health resources. While there is a growing body of evidence to reveal a positive influence of these natural environments on human health and well-being, further investigations guided by rigorous evidence-based medical research are very much needed. Objective: The present study protocol aims at testing research methodologies in the context of a prospective clinical trial on nature-based interventions. This shall improve the standards of medical research in human–nature interactions. Methods: The ANKER Study investigates the influence of two novel types of nature-based therapy—mountain hiking and forest therapy—on physiological, psychological, and immunological parameters of couples with a sedentary lifestyle. Two intervention groups were formed and spent a seven-day holiday in Algund, Italy. The “forest therapy group” participated in daily guided low-power nature connection activities. The “hiking group”, by contrast, joined in a daily moderate hiking program. Health-related quality of life and relationship quality are defined as primary outcomes. Secondary outcomes include nature connection, balance, cardio-respiratory fitness, fractional exhaled nitric oxide, body composition and skin hydration. Furthermore, a new approach to measure health-related quality of life is validated. The so-called “intercultural quality of life” comic assesses the health-related quality of life with a digitally animated comic-based tool.

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“…There are already a large number of studies that confirm or at least suggest numerous health effects of natural resources at different levels of evidence (see also [25]). Starting with training for professional athletes [26], the development of the immune system in early childhood [27,28], the findings also cover various groups of people specifically relevant to tourism, such as couples or the 65+ generation [29]. There is still a great need for research in this area, but for some indications such as allergies, overweight, lack of fitness, back pain, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, as well as stress and burnout, there are sufficient good findings to develop highquality tourism offers.…”

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KPI for Data-Driven Assessment of Innovative Development Paths for Nature-Based Health Tourism in the Alpine Region

Bischof

Hartl

2022

Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism

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Tourism has been one of the most important economic sectors in the Alps for many years. However, not least because of the cuts due to the pandemic, new and innovative approaches are needed to meet current challenges such as climate change, shortage of skilled workers or demographic change in order to make Alpine tourism fit for the future. The topic of health offers great potential in this context. With the KPI approach, therefore, a possible access to a nature-based health tourism with medical evidence is presented, which should support the actors from the tourism practice in the further development of the Alpine tourism. At the same time, the KPI approach also offers possibilities to enable an overall more sustainable development of the Alpine region. This paper places the KPI approach in a larger development framework and explains the underlying analytical system based on selected indicators.

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Effects of moderate mountain hiking and balneotherapy on community-dwelling older people: A randomized controlled trial

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

Public interest in spa therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Google Trends data among Turkey

Public interest in spa therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Google Trends data among Turkey

Mountain Hiking vs. Forest Therapy: A Study Protocol of Novel Types of Nature-Based Intervention

KPI for Data-Driven Assessment of Innovative Development Paths for Nature-Based Health Tourism in the Alpine Region

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