Holidays in Europe were fashionable and prestigious for Russians already in the nineteenth century. Nobles and bohemians rushed "to the waters" every winter in order to survive in a relatively warm and comfortable climate, severe Russian frosts and slush of the off-season. Today, treatment in Europe at prestigious resorts is no less popular than in the days of great-grandfathers, and Russian patients storm the sanatoriums and clinics of the Czech Republic and Austria, Switzerland and Belgium with enviable constancy, despite the rapidly changing exchange rates and the need to obtain visas.
How is it treated here?
All treatment in Europe is based on the use of natural factors that have a healing effect on the human body, their skillful combination with each other and with other medical programs. Depending on the profile of clinics and sanatoriums, they are divided into several types:
- Thermal resorts are based on the use of natural hot waters. Thermal waters saturated with minerals and microelements are able to alleviate the condition of patients complaining of joints and bronchi, depression and problems with blood pressure. The most popular thermal spas are located in Austria, Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia.
- Treatment with mineral waters is widespread in the spas of the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Austria. The source comes to the surface, as a rule, in mountainous areas, and the water from it is rich in healing substances and allows you to cure diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and joints, to get rid of gynecological and dermatological problems.
- Thalassotherapy is practiced in the seaside resorts of France, Italy and Cyprus, and this type of treatment in Europe is especially popular among the fair sex. The most common self-care or weight loss programs are based on thalassotherapy methods. The programs include mud and salt wraps, sea water baths, healing algae applications and heliotherapy.
- Radon waters are the basis of treatment in some resorts in Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Greece. Numerous springs in the highlands provide a special kind of radon-enriched thermal water. Subject to the rules of treatment with such water, micro doses of radiation contained in it are able to normalize blood pressure, improve the activity of the heart muscle, heal wounds and restore muscle tissue.
