Clinical and anti-aging effect of mud-bathing therapy for patients with fibromyalgia.
Clinical and anti-aging effect of mud-bathing therapy for patients with fibromyalgia.
Mol Cell Biochem. 2017 Dec 06;:
Authors: Maeda T, Kudo Y, Horiuchi T, Makino N
Abstract
Spa bathing is known as a medical treatment for certain diseases causing chronic pains. Spa water contains mineral components which lower the specific heat of the water, resulting in a higher efficiency to warm body-core temperature. This phenomenon yields pain-relieving effect for rheumatoid arthritis, low back pain, sciatic neuralgia, fibromyalgia, etc. Here we introduce medical and biological effects of mud-spa-bathing therapy for fibromyalgia other than pain relief, the changes of blood examination data, and the telomere length of circulating leukocytes. The enrolled 7 patients with fibromyalgia syndrome were hospitalized and were subject to daily mud bathing at 40 °C for 10 min for about a month. Then, their subjective pain was reduced to about a quarter in average. They also showed lowered serum triglyceride and C-reactive protein level, maintaining the levels of aspartate transaminase and creatine phosphokinase, and increases of the red blood cell count, the serum albumin level, and the serum LDL-cholesterol level in comparison with cases without mud-bathing therapy, suggesting that mud bathing prevents inflammation and muscle atrophy and improves nutritional condition in fibromyalgia. In addition, the analysis of telomere length of peripheral leukocyte...
Source: Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Maeda T, Kudo Y, Horiuchi T, Makino N Tags: Mol Cell Biochem Source Type: research
More News: Arthritis | Back Pain | Biochemistry | Cholesterol | Chronic Pain | Fibromyalgia | Laboratory Medicine | Low Back Pain | Molecular Biology | Nutrition | Pain | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Rheumatology