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The study is devoted to the substantiation of the possibility of isolating valuable components from highly mineralized natural-man-made waters, which are simultaneously exposed during the development of oil, gas fields and solid minerals. In modern conditions, these waters become waste. Moreover, they have all the characteristics of hydromineral raw materials. To effectively involve them in secondary use, it is necessary to identify potentially possible conditions for the selective separation of components from a multicomponent system, including using the climatic features of the territories that allow the use of cryotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of spa resorts is determined by many factors. Several conditions had to take place in order for spas to be established, including suitable climatic conditions and, mainly, the occurrence of natural healing resources. Our ancestors were using natural mineral springs for their unique properties. However, another healing sources were used during long history of balneotherapy, e.g. muds, peats and fens. Temples and altars were often built in such places for gods as a sign of gratitude. This may be considered a beginning of tourism in balneotherapy because sacral buildings contributed in increased attendance of spa areas. Balneotherapy in Czech Republic has a long-standing tradition. The main development took place during period between 18th and 19th century. The position of Bohemian lands allowed spas to flourish. Over 250 spa resorts were located in Bohemia itself, primarily focusing on hydrotherapy procedures. The number of spa cities and places has stabilised at number 37. Despite this number, Czech Republic is still considered a significant spa region being visited by hundreds of thousands visitors and tourists from all over the world. This article deals with the urban analysis of the Central Bohemian town of Poděbrady. It is an analysis focused on public spaces in spa towns, whose final form is summarized in the so-called Spa Town Card. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the frontier southeastern districts of the republic there is a sharp increase in international tourism, and in this regard, the development of the resort industry and the development of the local base of balneological resources are of particular importance. The material for the article was the results of studies conducted in 2018 under the project of grant financing “Development of an innovative methodology for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of therapeutic mud in south-eastern Kazakhstan as a hydromineral raw material” (IRN АР 05130934). The article presents a brief description of the area of work, the physico-chemical composition of the Arasan-Kunduzdy mud, and the prospects for its use in balneology. Sor Arasan-Kunduzdy is located in the Panfilov district of the Almaty region on the right bank of the former riverbed (oxbow) of the Ili river, 45 km south-west of Zharkent, geographically - in the eastern part of the Ili intermountain basin, bounded from the north by the Dzungarian Alatau ridge, from the south Ketmen ridge, from the west by the mountains of Katu-Tau and in the east by the state border with the Republic of China. The studies used: high-precision geodetic survey of the work area (scale 1: 500); drilling of observation and sensing wells, pits; penetration of exploration and sensing wells to determine the thickness of the mud deposit and study its lithological structure; mud sampling, in the process of drilling and monitoring; processing samples of mud by physico-chemical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The possibilities to develop health resorts and balneological or spa and thalassotherapy centres in the Baltic Sea region countries have not yet been fully analysed. The water resources in Latvia have been used historically and still in nowadays could be used for different types of treatments more effective. The core questions for a medical tourism development are products, demand and service quality. It is marked in the Baltic Sea country (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) development strategy that environmental management has a direct positive impact on the development of health tourism, to which identification and use of medical resources is very important. In the framework of the International Cooperation Project of the Baltic States coastal municipalities conducted research on available medical resources and their possible use when developing resorts and spas. In this article, the authors analyse the effect of historical importance of usage water resources (sea, inland water and ground (mineral water) for the future development of medical products with perspective of export. In order to analyses the water management in the region and the medical resources, the SWOT analysis of medical service providers what are using balneological treatments was made, a group of other research instruments had chosen. The research analyses of secondary data on historical sources applied, questionnaire (n>100) for evaluation of medical service treatment quality in Latvian health resorts was applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Slovakia is a country rich in natural mineral water resources. They are used for balneology purposes and as a natural mineral water. There is a large amount of resources in Slovakia that appear to be potential for further use, but for various reasons they are not. This is a big disadvantage for the country. The aim of this work is a proposal on how to use the local spring in Išľa, north eastern Slovakia, and change this area into attractive spa for domestic or foreign tourists. In the past, mineral springs in the spa Išľa were exploited quite intensively in the region. The spa capacity ceased to be in the 70-ties of 20th century. It was mainly due to undue interference with the rock environment. As a result of drainage activities in the area were springs in Išľa deteriorated by the change of hydrogeological conditions. Over time, however, it leads to the destruction of completed drainage, resulting in a gradual recovery of hydrogeological conditions. Appropriate and mainly targeted approach, respecting the realities of the site, is possible the reconstruction of the sources and the surrounding area to achieve a substantial increase in the quality of water chemistry in the spring to the original condition. This work analyses the current condition of water management, as a collection of groundwater by horizontal or vertical ways. It analyses the current state of mineral water, discusses their classification, occurrence and its usage. It contains a proposal for detention facilities and its usage for healing. There are included description, history, geological and hydro geological conditions of the proposed area as well as the current conditions of the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Balneotherapy cure is an ongoing process, but patients can benefit most when cure is complete. For these reason, patients should be closely monitored and necessary precautions should be taken in terms of the complications that may occur in order to prevent the interruption or discontinuation of balneotherapy. Here, we wanted to represent a case that developed left leg soft tissue infection during the application of balneotherapy and because of this reason we stopped the balneotherapy As a result, when balneotherapy is planned for patients with risk factors such as diabetes and obesity, frequent examination of the skin and the application of skin moisturizers will be beneficial to prevent itching and skin dryness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The latter third of the 19th Century was the golden age of balneotherapy on the Iberian Peninsula. Sea or wave baths along the Spanish coastline, which have now disappeared and are unknown in the current architectural panorama, are captured on a plethora of postcards and advertising posters that used photography, which was fully developed throughout Spain, as a means of promoting the culture of bathing. Through photography we are now able to see what these absent structures looked like, and to understand the esthetic values of the day, the types of baths that existed, the materiality of the architecture and its structures, and even their temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience economy implies, in tourism marketing, the necessity to adopt a vision according to which the fulfillment of consumer needs can be achieved a mid its desire for individualism, only by means of interaction with all the destination elements relevant for him/her. From this perspective, the activities which can be developed within the tourism product represent direct contact points with the consumer personality, the potential experiential value being rendered by its degree of association with the experiential background pursued by the marketing specialist. In this context, a quantitative marketing research has been conducted, on a sample of 103 people aged 18-24 years, in order to capture the main aspects of the tourism experience regarding balneotherapy tourism (one of the types of tourism with great development potential in Romania), in relation to the buying decision process for a tourism product in the balneotherapy destinations from Romania. The destination attributes, regarded in this study as crucial elements in constructing the services within the tourism experience, represent the starting point in developing the experiential space of the balneotherapy tourism destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Age, obesity, sex and previous injuries are considered to be significant risk factors for osteoarthritis. Mud is a therapeutic agent used since ancient times to treat osteoarthritis. Although extensively used, the mechanisms by which balneal therapy acts are poorly studied, sometimes we can even say that they are "full of surprises". The complexity of its biochemical composition, the rich microbial flora, the inter-relationships between its components, slow down the detection of the physiological and therapeutic effects and mechanisms by which they are produced. The aim of this paper consists in the complex evaluation of clinical effects of peloidotherapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis, in order to bring knew arguments referring to the treatment of this disease. In our prospective randomized clinical study, we included 55 patients, diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis divided in 2 batches. Regarding the clinical parameters evaluated (VAS Score, Lequesne Index and WOMAC Index) a statistically significant decrease in both groups analyzed was found (p<0.05 for BCN batch and p <0.0001 in BRN batch). The difference between the two groups was the way of mud application: the warm mud bath batch (BCN) - 32 patients and the cold mud bath batch (BRN) - 23 patients. BCN consisted in one mud bath per day alternating with a salty bath per day (both bath applied at 38 °C,considered thermo neutral therapy). The cold mud ointment (progressive general heliotherapy 22-24 ° C, mud ointment at 16-20 ° C, swimming in the lake > 20 ° C, considered contrasting therapy). At admission and after 10 days of balneal treatment, patients were assessed clinically (VAS, Lequesne index, WOMAC index). For statistical analysis we used SPSS 18. Both the warm mud bath and the cold mud ointment modifies clinical parameters of degenerative rheumatic diseases. The different thermal regime which mediates different neuro-vegetative answers, different answers of the pro-inflammatory citokines and stress proteins, doesn't influence the good clinical response of the peloidotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many natural water springs in Tuva, that are used by native people for medicinal purposes. They are called arjaans. To people's opinion, the treatment at the arjaans is very effective. It's an old national tradition of tuvan peoples closely connected to the way of life. Every year more than 10.000 people are treated on the arjaans without medical control. The therapeutic methods used by the arjaans traditionally are drinking, having shower and bath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]