Long-term efficacy of spa therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Karagülle, Mine; Kardeş, Sinan

doi:10.23853/bsehm.2018.0577

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“…Most of the balneotherapeutic studies abroad have never used a placebo control (15,16,(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37), despite the fact that this would be one of the most important steps in proving the beneficial effects of medicinal waters. In Hungarian studies, it is more common to use a placebo control (4,7,(38)(39)(40).…”

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A New and Validated, Randomised, Controlled Placebo Water Development Trial for Medicinal Water-based Research

Hegyi

Hanzel

Berényi

et al. 2021

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Background/Aim: To develop and validate an easy-to-use and cheap method capable of producing placebo from tap water for medicinal water efficacy trials. Patients and Methods: Patients were divided into two groups, medicinal water and tap water group. A single 20-minutelong treatment was performed in bathtubs. Patients were asked four times during the bath to tell if they were treated with medicinal water, tap water, or could not decide. Patients were scored, one point was given for each correct answer. Results: A total of 174 patients were enrolled. No significant differences were found either between the average scores or the answers of the two groups. Being familiar with the Harkány medicinal water did not influence the rate of correct answers either. There was no statistically significant difference in the number of changes of opinions between the two groups. Conclusion: The used method is appropriate for producing a validated placebo from tap water.

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A New and Validated, Randomised, Controlled Placebo Water Development Trial for Medicinal Water-based Research

Hegyi

Hanzel

Berényi

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“…(11). The randomized controlled crossover study performed by the same study group showed the beneficial effects of spa therapy applied to patients with rheumatoid arthritis in addition to pharmacotherapy (19). Studies on AS have shown that mud treatments and thermal baths are useful in AS and other spondyloarthritis (11,17,(21)(22)(23)(24).…”

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Ankilozan Spondilitli Hastalarda Balneoterapinin Etkinliği ve İnflamasyona Etkisi, Pilot Çalışma

Özkuk¹,

Uysal²

2020

Ege Tıp Bilimleri Dergisi

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“…Balneotherapy traditionally refers to using thermal mineral waters (also mud/peloid) in different combinations (Fioravanti et al 2017;Karagülle et al 2018). This therapy method is a clinically effective complementary approach in the treatment of stress-related pathologies, because it is leading to antiinflammatory, analgesic, antioxidant, chondroprotective and anabolic effects together with neuroendocrineimmune regulation (Kerdes et al 2017;Galvez et al, 2018).…”

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Investigation of Therapeutic Effects of Thermal Waters of Afyonkarahisar Region in Stress-Induced Mice

Elitok

2020

IJAR

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In this study, 20 Albino mice of the same daily age were used. All the animals were restrained in well-ventilated 50 ml tubes (plus 3 or 4 cm long middle tubes), which were slipped over the tail to restrict movement even more and left undisturbed under an opaque duration of the stress (30 min). After stress procedure was applied in all animals, 20 mice which have same alive weight average and constitute the study material were divided into two groups as control group (CG) (n=10) and study groups (SG) (n=10) for a 21-day treatment period equally and randomly. Normal tap water was added to the CG mice’ drinkers, while the hot spring water that was brought from the source each day as fresh added to SG mice’ drinkers and they were allowed to reach ad libitum. Clinical, hematological and blood biochemical parameters were measures on 1, 7, 14 and 21 days after treatment in all the animals. The results of this study showed that cortisol and glucose levels decreased in stressed mice treated with Süreyya I Hot Spring Water, while ALB, TP, T3 and T4 levels increased and these changes were statistically significant plessthan0.06) when compared to the control group.

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Long-term efficacy of spa therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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A New and Validated, Randomised, Controlled Placebo Water Development Trial for Medicinal Water-based Research

A New and Validated, Randomised, Controlled Placebo Water Development Trial for Medicinal Water-based Research

Ankilozan Spondilitli Hastalarda Balneoterapinin Etkinliği ve İnflamasyona Etkisi, Pilot Çalışma

Investigation of Therapeutic Effects of Thermal Waters of Afyonkarahisar Region in Stress-Induced Mice

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