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We provide a broad review of the scientific output of Vincenzo Cuomo, general practitioner and health officer on the Isle of Capri. As well as his work as a doctor he was a close observer of the environment and in particular of the island's splendid climate and its benefits not only for the local po...
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PMID: 20701223
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Thermal Medicine is now well integrated with other therapies such as pharmacotherapy, surgery, physiotherapy, radiotherapy and so on, in the prevention, cure and rehabilitation of many diseases. The methodology of thermal treatments, now recognized as bona fide therapies with their specific indicati...
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PMID: 20701224
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On staying in the mountains, there was a gradual increase in the content of hemoglobin in patients with AA and ITP. On day 40, in keeping with higher hemoglobin (Hb) levels, both groups showed a decrease in HIF-1alpha concentrations to the normal values (from 8.2 to 4.5 pg/ml). Due to the anemic syn...
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PMID: 20364699
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of aerobic exercise in water pool compared with aerobic exercise performed in sea by women with fibromyalgia (FM). A total of 46 patients were randomly allocated into two groups: pool group (23 patients) and sea group (23 patients) that perform...
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PMID: 18600327
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In the era when biological treatments for psoriasis are gaining more and more popularity, climatotherapy represents a safe and efficient alternative to the conventional therapeutic modalities. Climatotherapy comprises alternative treatment methods, which are based on the healing capacities of natura...
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PMID: 18755366
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Significant differences in nervous and cardiovascular systems state and humoral homeostasis indices were established in relative healthy personnel (62 persons) of Resuscitation Unit and Burn Center in comparison with control group (60 persons). Thalassotherapy has obvious health-improving effect in...
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PMID: 18509925
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Mean PASI value before and after treatment was 31.7 and 1.42, showing a 95.5% improvement. All patients reached PASI 50, and 75.9% of them reached PASI 75 after 1 month of DSC. The median time of remission was 23.1 weeks. The median time of duration of therapeutic effect was 33.6 weeks. Statistical...
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PMID: 17910722
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The temporary improvement in quality of life due to an adjuvant treatment course of spa therapy for patients with FM is associated with limited incremental costs per patient....
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PMID: 17636181
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The article describes changes in heart rhythm variability (HRV) as a response to equal complex physical factors (hyperthermia of 60 degrees C with low relative humidity of 8 to 15%, air ionization, thalasso, and relaxing music). The subjects of the study were 28 individuals having no verified chroni...
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PMID: 17500213
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Age, as well as the duration of the condition, influenced the distress induced by CP/CPPS, suggesting an improved coping ability with time as well as age. The ambient temperature appears to play a role as cold was frequently reported as causing symptom aggravation and heat was often reported to be a...
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PMID: 17853027
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Throughout the ages the interest in the use of sea water in medicine has fluctuated from century to century and from nation to nation. In this paper, the historical development of sea medicine from the ancient Egyptians until the 20th century is given. The medical world has viewed it with different...
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PMID: 18265720
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We report a case of algae-powder-induced OA. Such responses could be due to a sensitization to algae proteins or metal contaminants bioabsorbed by the vegetal particles....
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PMID: 16733258
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A combination of thalassotherapy, exercise and patient education may temporarily improve fibromyalgia symptoms and health-related quality of life....
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PMID: 15695301
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We examined the efficacy of bathing atopic subjects in a salt rich in magnesium chloride from deep layers of the Dead Sea (Mavena(R) Dermaline Mg(46) Dead Sea salt, Mavena AG, Belp, Switzerland). Volunteers with atopic dry skin submerged one forearm for 15 min in a bath solution containing 5% Dead S...
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PMID: 15689218
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The study included 70 patients (40 men, 30 women; age 19-78 years). There was a 75.9% reduction in PASI score, from a mean of 16.6+/-11.0 before treatment to 4.0+/-4.2 after treatment (p<0.001). There was a 57.5% reduction in BPSS, from a mean of 72.8+/-19.6 before treatment to 31.0+/-21.2 after tre...
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PMID: 16428150
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A complex study of physiological parameters allowed us to analyse reactions of cardiovascular system to dipping into a hot water varying in salt concentrations. These reactions differ from those to dipping into cold water. Dipping into hot water leads to depression of the tonicity of parasympathic n...
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PMID: 15759468
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This article is dedicated in remembrance of Friedrich Wilhelm von Halem, a former student of the University Frankfurt-on-Oder (Viadrina) in later eighteenth-century Germany. Friedrich Wilhelm von Halem from Aurich, was the first physician in the period of the German Enlightenment, who had introduced...
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PMID: 15236096
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Heliomarinotherapy is an important therapeutic option in the treatment of psoriasis. Investigations on heliomarinotherapy carried out in Veli Losinj, Croatia showed that the remissions of psoriasis after such treatment were long lasting, side effects slight, and use of corticosteroids not necessary....
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PMID: 15095761
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We investigated the changes in plasma lactate and pyruvate concentrations, or subjective judgment scores, after bathing at rest in 9 healthy young men. Subjects were immersed for 10 minutes in DSW, surface seawater (SSW), and tap water (TW) heated to 42 degrees C. Plasma samples were collected befor...
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PMID: 14690012
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We undertook to evaluate the demographic factors that have the strongest impact on this beneficial effect, in adults and children. The major factors studied were: gender, previous medical history, previous stays at the Dead Sea, skin type, skin involvement, age, and duration of treatment. Results A...
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PMID: 10651969
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Therapeutic action and efficiency of electrophoresis of humic acids (HA) from Khaapsaluskaya sea mud were studied in 97 patients with osteoarthrosis in comparison with electrophoresis of physiologic salt solution (PS). HA electrophoresis was found more effective (p < 0.01) as providing more potent a...
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PMID: 11247142
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The opioid peptides enkephalins have been shown to modulate inflammatory responses and keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation. Furthermore, increased levels of enkephalin are present in psoriatic lesions. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of natural sunlight combin...
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PMID: 9990364
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In 1850 a vicar's daughter wanted to cure her lymphadenitis by health sea baths and drinking strengthening salt sea water. In the morning of the eleventh of August she took a bath and emptied three glass of salt sea water. At about 3 hours P.M. she fell ill with intensive watery diarrhoea and died o...
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PMID: 11625463
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We measured changes in histamine levels in fluids from children with moderate or severe atopic dermatitis by the skin chamber method and evaluated the correlation with clinical symptoms. Skin chambers were applied to the forearm skin which had been scratched with a needle, and extract of Dermatophag...
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PMID: 7518229
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Human leukocyte elastase, a proteolytic enzyme of neutrophils, can be determined by a highly sensitive enzymatic assay. Bathing in hypertonic salt solutions allowed considerable amounts of human leukocyte elastase to be eluted from psoriatic lesions. Optimal elution was achieved with sodium chloride...
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PMID: 2793462
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Venolymphatic pathology of the lower extremities represents a major part of the recruiting of a specialized thalassotherapy center, such as "Les Cures Marines de Trouville". The various treatments are adjusted according to each clinical case. The main techniques which are prescribed, include alterna...
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PMID: 3406101
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