Does a stollen therapy also help me?

Telefonaktion: Cures underground - what's up?

05/12/2013

Does a stollen therapy also help me? How does a cure go? Does the health insurance pay my spa stay? Am I really uncomfortable at the end? Answers to these and other questions will be given by experts of the Gastein Heilstollen on Thursday, 12 December, from 4 to 7 pm to those interested and affected under the free number 00800 6006 7878. In addition to the medical director of the Gastein Heilstollen Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertram HölzI, experts on reimbursement are also available.

Therapies in the Gasteiner Heilstollen show positive effects especially in diseases of the rheumatic type such as arthritis and the musculoskeletal system such as osteoporosis and chronic back pain. But also in diseases of the respiratory tract such as asthma and sarcoidosis as well as eczema and psoriasis helps the stollen therapy. The medical team of the Gasteiner Heilstollen can be reached from 16:00 for three hours on the phone number 00800 6006 7878 and answer questions about therapy, spa stay, reimbursement. In addition, the experts give estimates on personal prospects of success, answer questions about billing or applying for a cure at the health insurance and present the latest study results.

Since 1952, the natural climate for so-called radon heat therapy has been used in the Gasteiner Heilstollen. It is usually carried out in the form of a multi-week course with about 10 entries of 60 minutes on different therapy stations. Patients travel up the mountain with a ponytail - lying or sitting, depending on the illness - and spend about an hour in lying position. For Bechterew's disease patients, the tunnel is today the world's largest therapy center. For example, the international IMuRA study, which complies with Class 1b of evidence-based medicine, has shown positive effects: patients with ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, or arthrosis had significantly less pain over a period of up to nine months. In addition, they were largely able to do without adjunctive painkillers, mostly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). (Pm)