Dead Sea and Tiberias as health resort areas for patients suffering from different types of arthritis

Shaul Sukenik; Mahmoud Abu-Shakra; Shlomi Kudish; Daniel Flusser

Dead Sea and Tiberias as health resort areas for patients suffering from different types of arthritis

Shaul Sukenik, Mahmoud Abu-Shakra, Shlomi Kudish, Daniel Flusser

Medical School for International Health

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-122
Number of pages	6
Journal	Harefuah
Volume	145
Issue number	2
State	Published - 1 Feb 2006

Keywords

Arthritis
Balneotherapy
Dead Sea
Spa therapy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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