Natural healing climate in fibromyalgia

Pain free and active thanks to radon heat therapy

02/07/2012

Fibromyalgia, better known as soft tissue rheumatism, often begins insidiously. Affected suffer from chronic pain in muscles, tendons, joints, arms or legs - the doctors exactly locate as so-called tender points. If 11 out of the 18 major pain points respond spontaneously to pressure, doctors in the fibromyalgia syndrome speak. Exhaustion often accompanies the disease after the least effort. Some even force them to give up their profession. So far, fibromyalgia is considered incurable. Even drug therapies - which often have serious side effects - only affect 30 to 40 percent of patients. More and more sufferers are therefore relying on radon heat therapy as a natural alternative to traditional medical medication, which shows that in 71 percent of fibromyalgia patients significant pain relief over many months.

„Experience has shown that radon heat therapy also has a very positive effect on the need for medication and the feeling of exhaustion“, reports PD Bertram Hölzl, radon expert and medical director of the Gasteiner Heilstollen. Many soft tissue rheumatism sufferers need after a two-week cure even no more tablets and feel noticeably fitter. The success of radon heating therapy is based on a combination of mild overheating, high humidity and radon uptake. Because only in interaction unfolds the optimal therapeutic benefit of these three impact factors on the organism. Radon releases mild alpha rays in the body, which stimulate cell repair mechanisms and activate healing and anti-inflammatory messengers. These in turn are proven to contribute to the long lasting relief of pain and many other ailments. Temperatures above 37.5 degrees and high humidity above 70 percent also lead to the so-called hyperthermia effect. Under these conditions, the body core temperature increases, the blood circulation is stimulated and relax the muscles. In this gently overheated state, the organism absorbs Radon much better and benefits even more from its natural healing power.

The Radonwärmetherapie is particularly suitable for the treatment of diseases of the rheumatic type, the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory tract and the skin. „93 percent of fibromyalgia patients rated the results of radon therapy as good“, knows Dr. Hölzl from the accompanying scientific studies on the efficacy of the symptom-oriented treatment in this disease. Health insurance companies often take about 90 percent of the therapy costs. Otherwise, for example, an application in Gasteiner Heilstollen costs about 60 euros. (Pm)