Viscero-somatic integration: new therapeutic proposals through integrated thermal cures (CIT)
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Published:2021-07-31
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Page:29-34
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ISSN:2612-1344
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Container-title:Journal of Advanced Health Care
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language:it
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Short-container-title:JAHC
Author:
Giovanni Barassi1ORCID, Giuseppe Irace2, Antonella Di Iulio3ORCID, Giuseppe Di Stefano4, Edoardo Di Simone5ORCID, Chiara Mariani5, Marco Supplizi6, Angelo Di Iorio7ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Coordinator of the Center for Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation and Re-education (Ce.Fi.R.R.) headquarters "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara Ce.Fi.R.R. Coordinator Gemelli Molise, Teaching Center "Catholic University of the Sacred Heart" (Rome / Campobasso) Ce.Fi.R.R. Coordinator headquarters Thermal Medicine Center of Castelnuovo della Daunia (Fg) Lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome / Campobasso and at the University of Chieti-Pescara 2. Thermal Medicine Center of Castelnuovo della Daunia, Foggia, Italy 3. MSc, U.O.C. Thoracic Surgery. "Santo Spirito" Hospital Pescara, ASL Pescara (Pescara-IT). 4. BSc, Member of the CIT (Integrated Thermal Cares) Project of the Medical Thermal Center of Castelnuovo della Daunia (FG-IT). 5. BSc, Water Rehabilitation Laboratory of Ce.Fi.R.R. venue “G. d’Annuznio University” Chieti-Pescara (IT). 6. University “Gabriele d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy 7. Associate Professor Department of Aging Sciences, "G.d’Annunzio" University Chieti-Pescara.
Abstract
Traditional thermal medicine, gold standard for some pathologies, focuses its therapeutic target mainly on a sectorial level, focusing only on the pathological symptom and neglecting man as a whole.
The importance of the whole, of the phenomena of systemic, viscero-somatic and somato-visceral interrelation, has led to the creation of a new approach called "CTI" - Integrated Thermal Care, which uses all the thermal therapies, integrated and administered according to the individual needs to enhance their therapeutic effect.
235 subjects have received, on average, 40 treatments within about a year. They were treated with hydropinic treatment, inhalation treatments, hydrokinesitherapy, vascular pathways, mud therapy and manual neuromuscular therapy associated with the previous treatments.
The results obtained in all the FIM, VAS, TINETTI, EUROQOL scales are positive and statistically significant, which suggests that a modification of the treatment protocols, which provides for a unique and integrated stimulation, is the new objective of thermal medicine for serious disabilities.
Publisher
Ordine TSRM PSTRP di Napoli, Avellino, Benevento
Subject
Earth-Surface Processes
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