Heat relieves joint pain

Natural combination of active ingredients often helps more sustainable than tablets

04/07/2012

In summer temperatures, people who tend to achy joints, usually much less. Changeable weather, wet and cold but often aggravated pulling and unbearable pressure in feet, knees, hands or shoulders. In times of changeable weather conditions sufferers fight therefore meanwhile almost the whole year with complaints. Warm baths, warming pads or patches often bring only a short-term improvement, drugs are for many due to their side effects not as a permanent solution in question. Radon heat therapy, on the other hand, is a gentle and effective alternative to conventional measures. Its successes are based not only on the beneficial effects of heat on high humidity and the absorption of radon.

„Radon has been used as a cure for more than 100 years in low dose. Acquired through the skin and lungs, it initiates many biological processes with a variety of positive effects on the human organism,“ explains Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertram Hölzl, radon expert and medical director of the Gasteiner Heilstollen. The natural noble gas stimulates the body's own repair mechanisms, reduces the activity of inflammatory cells and inhibits the release of painkillers. This benefits patients with degenerative joint diseases as well as those with inflammatory complaints. „The majority reported after radon heat therapy on significant pain relief and improved joint mobility, which often lasting for months,“ knows Dr. hölzl. „Many do not need medication at all and feel better overall.“

However, Radon only develops its optimal health benefits in combination with temperatures of over 37.5 degrees and up to 100 percent with moisture-saturated air. Because under these conditions comes to a slight overheating of the body. Even this so-called hyperthermia effect brings relief to many pain-plagued. In addition, the organism in this state absorbs radon much better and thus increases its therapeutic efficacy. In addition to diseases of the musculoskeletal system, the Radonwärmetherapie is also suitable for the treatment of diseases of the rheumatic type, the respiratory tract and the skin. Health insurance companies often take about 90 percent of the therapy costs.