Improvement of fibromyalgia by thalassotherapy

The magazine of the month of rheumatology, clinical studies showed the effect of thalassotherapy for fibromyalgia had been reported. (Rheumatol Int. 2008 Jul 4. electronic journal version) Fibromyalgia is a disease of unknown etiology with the pain of the whole body. As symptomatic treatment, a variety of complementary and alternative medicine has been proposed. In this study, targeting fibromyalgia patients 46 people, were divided randomly into two groups of each 23 people, the aerobic exercise program, was carried out for 12 weeks each with fresh water pool and seawater pool, effect comparison It has been. As a result, in both groups, as compared to before treatment, showed VAS, number of tender points, FIQ, SF-36, PSQI, the improvement in indicators such as BDI. (It should be noted, by previous studies, aerobic exercise has been shown to data that is effective as a symptomatic treatment of fibromyalgia. Also in this study, you will to the fact that similar results.) Also, the BDI, as compared to the fresh water of the pool, in the aerobic exercise program implementation group by the seawater pool, significant improvement was observed. These data, aerobic exercise in the pool, it is suggested to be useful as a complementary therapy for fibromyalgia. And, the effect can be thought of as easily obtained in seawater pool to be used in thalassotherapy. In the future, the thalassotherapy as complementary therapies, the progress of studies to verify the clinical significance is expected. posted at 23:58 | URL of this article DHC Izu Akazawa of deep ocean water features [July 27, 2008 (Sun)] In recent years, through joint research with DHC deep ocean water Institute and University, with excellent properties of deep ocean water it is becoming apparent. DHC Izu Akazawa features of the deep sea water, because it is introduced in the adjacent to the "Akazawa spa", "Akazawa deep sea water pavilion", if there is an opportunity, it is fortunate if you can see.