There are many prejudices about radon treatment and that it can be harmful.
However, numerous researches and decades of spa treatments in Jachymov confirmed that radon is completely safe for body. During procedures a negligible amount of radon gets in tissues. It does not accumulate in body and is excreted rapidly for about 20 minutes.
If you get a fully cure of radon therapy (21 days), the magnitude of the dose of radiation corresponds to a single X-ray examination of lungs. Throughout the course of treatment the patient is under a doctor's supervision. In addition, there are dosimetric laboratories in sanatoriums of Jachymov. They control the level of radon in air and water permanently and very carefully.
Curative procedures in sanatoriums of Jachymov include:
- Hydrotherapy: natural thermal bath , pearl mineral bath, underwater massage, hydroxeur, natural carbonic bath, whirlpool baths for upper or lower limbs. These procedures help to improve blood supply, normalization of metabolic processes, improve the condition of bones and cartilage tissues, improve immunity.
- Electrotherapy. Includes such procedures as magnetic pulse field, laser therapy, ultrasound, and diathermy. Variable frequency currents warm tissues and help to improve blood circulation and metabolism. Electrotherapy also has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects on a body.
- Treatment by natural gas. Natural gas injections, dry carbon dioxide baths, carbonic bath. Improves circulation, has analgesic effects.
- Physiotherapy: classical, reflex, partial massages, exercises in pool, the mobilization of spine, ergotherapy. It helps especially in vertebra diseases and postoperative conditions.
- Special therapy: brahiradiumterapiya, radiotherapy.
How the radon treatment affect organism?
When having the radon bath, soft ionizing radiation activates a chain of physiological reactions in organism, including cellular level, thereby
- reduce pain, improve joint and muscles flexibility,
- stimulate regenerative processes
- normalize blood pressure
- regenerate tissues and remove free radicals from body
- activate immune system
- activate hormone production
- promote the growth of new cells
Radon therapy is very gentle. It does not make the heat load on body. It is well tolerated by older people, even with diseases of cardiovascular system . Moreover, radon treatment is prescribed for peripheral vascular disease , such as vasospastic disorders , anemia in atherosclerosis of the lower extremities, vein inflammation.
Typically, first few days after the passage of therapeutic treatments most patients feel so-called "resort reaction ".Because, all in all, a spa treatment is a certain stress for body. It is manifested in overall weakness, in some cases, in worsening of chronic diseases. However, this effect passes after 2 weeks staying at the resort. In most cases, health improving lasts for more than six months. After the course of radon treatment many patients refuse of painkillers.
Treatments in Jachymov
- Acute stage of all chronic diseases
- Acute bleeding
- Epilepsy
- Cancer metastasis
- Pregnancy
- Liver cirrhosis
- Biliary tract infection
- Active tuberculosis
- Acute cardiac failure
Radon treatment is not recommended to pregnant women, children and youth under 18 years, patients who had undergone operational treatment of cancer and chemotherapy during the last 2 years.
