Abano Terme Astoria - Marketing General Manager Alberto Fioraso

The muds of the Euganean area are a mixture of sand, vegetable soil, algae, radium, radio-active gases, mineral water from 30 to 60% and unicellular organisms which form the thermal flora.

The applications of mud are indicated in the treatment of chronic articular diseases (Arthritis and polyarthtritis), in the latent phase of rheumatoid Arthritis, in Bechterew's disease, in gout Arthritis, in osteoarthrosis, in the issue of contusions and fractures, in stress and sport traumas.
However, there are contraindications which have to be accurately examined each time by the thermal physician.
Only ofter the medical visit and the issue of the medical prescription the patient is admitted to the mud theraphy. Thermal treatments are always performed in the morning, after a prearranged appointment time with the hotel concierge, to whon the patient will give the medical prescription.
In the morning, after being rung up, the patient will wear a bathrobe for the treatments department, which he will find already in the room.
The patient can only drink (of course no alcoholic drinks) before the mud and the thermal bath. You can have breakfast only after mud and the thermal reaction. If you wish to have breakfast before the treatments, you will have to wait at least for two hours before the mud.

Massages are very important and should always follow the mud applications. There are three types of them:

l.) NORMAL MASSAGE, it is light and done in the patient's room after the mud. It is above all necessary because it reactivates the superficial blood circulation after the heat provoked by the mud and the bath.

2.) SPECIAL MASSAGE, it is performed in the treatments department on the first floor. It strengthens and relaxes the muscles, it has also an anticellulitis and a slimming effect.

3.) SUBACQUEOUS MASSAGE, it is performed in a special bath-tub, in the treatments department, and it is the most indicated for spondylitis and vertebral arthrosis diseases.

Inhalatory Balneotherapy (inhalations and aerosol with thermal water) is indicated in the active and chronic bronchitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis and for smoking addicts.

The swimming pool is necessary to complete the therapy. Water therapy goes from 28° to 33°. Normally, you can remain in the water for 30 minutes, twice a day, moving slowly but continuously. Remaining more than half hour could tire you and even damage.

In the same area of the swimming pool there are the Sudatory Grottos, whose action is similar to that of the sauna but you are advised to use it in the afternon. Morever, there's a very good Solarium for those who want to get tanned when sun rays lack.
If the patiewnt would like to get some medical information or ask questions which have not been asked during the first medical visit, or some problems during the therapy should occur, he/she can always consult the thermal ohysician who is always present in the Health Director's office, on the first floor, every day at 6.60 p.m. exept for Saturday and Sunday.

Health Management