Pain therapy Radon instead of opiates

Less pain, less medication

07/22/2014

People who suffer from a chronic pain disorder usually have to resort to medication several times a day. Although these make temporary torment bearable, with long-term use they aggravate the suffering by occurring side effects such as depression, stomach, kidney problems or liver damage in addition. Other prescription painkillers are opiates used, for example, in chronic pain in rheumatic conditions. They can cause weight loss, nausea, respiratory problems and many more health problems. Therefore, many sufferers try to bite without tablets and to take as little as possible from them. Alternative forms of treatment such as radon heat therapy are therefore a good solution for many people affected. Although they often can not cure the disease, but at least make everyday life easier with her.

Studies have confirmed the long-lasting analgesic effects of radon heat therapy in former mines. Radon naturally leaves the rock inside the mountain. For therapeutic use pain victims go with a train to different therapeutic stations. Patients take the inert gas through the skin and lungs in small amounts during an approximately one-hour therapy session they spend lying down. „Experience shows that beneficial effects of radon heat therapy persist for many months“, explains Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertram Hölzl, radon expert and medical director of the Gasteiner Heilstollen. „As a symptom-oriented form of treatment, however, radon heat therapy can not remedy the causes of the diseases.“ Their successes are based on a combination of mild overheating and high humidity and uptake of radon. Radon releases mild alpha rays in the body that activate anti-inflammatory messengers. These relieve painful conditions and accompanying complaints. The effect of radon is further enhanced by the so-called hyperthermia effect. This occurs in the body whenever temperatures above 37.5 degrees and high humidity coincide. This raises the patient's core body temperature to 38.5 degrees. As a result, the blood vessels expand, resulting in better blood circulation and relaxation of pain-plagued muscles. Another advantage: the form of therapy is considered to have few side effects.

Especially for the treatment of diseases of the rheumatic type, the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory tract and the skin is the Radonwärmetherapie. „For the disease, ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic, inflammatory rheumatic disease that causes unbearable pain, our success rates are 80 to 90 percent“, knows Dr. Hölzl. Often, radon heat therapy also has an effect when classic conventional medical medication reaches its limits and even strong analgesics are no longer helpful. (Pm)