Treatment diseases of the musculoskeletal system in Swieradow Zdroj

In order to reduce or eliminate pain, reduce joint deformity, stiffness, reduce muscle hypertone and increase muscle strength, improve the mental state of patients with osteoarthritis (OA), gout is sent to a spa-resort treatment. A contraindication is the stage of acute OA, acute and chronic gout, in the presence of gouty kidney, pronounced gouty joints with moderate and high activity of the process, and when accompanied by these diseases pronounced exudative inflammation in the joints with damage to internal organs, hormone therapy. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the absence of pronounced changes in the internal organs, mainly articular and combined forms in the inactive phase, with a minimum and average degree of activity with the possibility of maintenance and independent movement are sent to balneological spa-resorts. Contraindications are septic forms of RA, severe deformities of joints with secondary synovitis with loss of ability to move independently, RA with systemic lesions (viscerites). Patients with ankylosing spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis) with activity not higher than grade II, osteochondrosis and osteochondropathies with secondary and neurological disorders without them, on condition of independent movement, are sent to balneotherapy and mud-cure resorts with radon and hydrogen sulfide waters, as well as mud resorts. Spa-resort treatment is contraindicated in patients with secondary synovitis with loss of independent movement.