Therapeutic Effects Of Sulphur - Peat Baths On Patients With Rheumatic Muscle Pain

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Therapeutic Effects Of Sulphur - Peat Baths On Patients With Rheumatic

Muscle Pain

 

http://www.balneotherapy.com/rheumatic.htm

 

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Objective: Medicinal bath consisting of sulphur and peat (humic acid)

were investigated for the treatment of rheumatic disease.

 

Subjects: Forty patients with osteoarthritis were divided into two

groups of twenty patients per group.

 

Design: A placebo-controlled double-blind study, according to the

Helsinki phase three (III) study criteria, was followed. Patients were

selected by inclusion and exclusion criteria. Sixteen anatomically

defined trigger points utilized for analgesic effects were examined by

means of a quantitative pressure threshold meter, and general patients

were subjected to eight baths at 37 degrees C for twenty minutes, over a

period of three weeks. The placebo baths were not distinguishable by

either smell or color. All patients received physical therapy during

this study.

 

Results: After second and third weeks of treatment, the average pain

threshold and VAS scores of the sulphur-peat bath group demonstrated a

significant improvement compared with the placebo group. The combination

of standard physical therapy with placebo bath did not bring on

significant analgesic effect.

 

Conclusions: Peat-sulphur bath is a better effective therapeutic measure

in the treatment of soft tissue rheumatism, promising better relief from

muscular pain than standard physical therapy.

 

Key words: Medical Hydrology, Sulphurous Peat Bath, Pain.

 

H.G. Pratzel, U.M. Aignerm, D. Wemert, B. Limbach, Prof. Dr. E. Sann.

Institute for Medical Balneology and Climatology, L.N.U. Munich.

Phys. Rehab. Kur Med. 2, 1992 (George Thieme: Stuttgart, NewYork), pp. 92-97