Transcript II INTERNATIONAL HEALTH TOURISM CONGRESS ANTALYA – …

II INTERNATIONAL HEALTH TOURISM CONGRESS
ANTALYA – TURKEY. FEBRUARY 27th – MARCH 2nd 2009
THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF THALASSOTHERAPY IN HEALTH TOURISM
ALL AROUND THE WORLD NOWADAYS
João Viegas Fernandes *
Filomena Maurício Viegas Fernandes **
*SPA/THALASSO Expert, Professor, University of the Algarve Faro, Portugal
**Medical Doctor
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Health Tourism
• Health tourism includes travelling to places and also facilities
such as hospitals, thermae, thalasso wellness and fitness
centers.The purpose of health tourism is medical care and
health, beauty, relaxation, recovery and rehabilitation
treatments. There are more than a hundred million health
tourists around the world per year.
• Thalassotherapy is included in health and wellness tourism.
Wellness has to do with good health and quality of life. In a
holistic approach to health, the treatments and therapies aim to
restore the vital balance between body, mind and spirit,
towards an equilibrium and health harmony. This harmony
rebalances and restores the energy flow bringing about overall
wellbeing.
• Nowadays, human beings are aware of the healing wonders of
mother nature, namely the sea. The time spent near the ocean
enhances our ability to recover from injury, illness and stress.
Thalassotherapy concept
• The denomination thalassotherapy is a neologism created by
the French Doctor Joseph de la Bonnardière in 1865, based in
two Greek words – thalassa (sea) and therapea/therapeuin
(therapy).
• The therapeutic benefits of thalassotherapy stem from the
similarity between seawater composition (92 different
substances) and that of the human blood plasma.
• The health concept thalassotherapy implies the performance,
under medical supervision, of several treatments with natural
ocean resources for therapeutic benefits, both preventive and
curative: marine environment; natural, pure, clean, fresh
seawater; algae; seaweed; sponge; anemone; shells; corals;
sand; mud; salts scrubs and seafood.
• A good Thalassotherapy Center is located on the sea coast. In
order to comply with hygiene and sanitary safety, the seawater
is drawn from a safe distance from a ashore.
Thalassotherapy treatments
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Thalassotherapy makes use of several equipments and treatments,
such as:
Climatotherapy (therapeutic use of the environment- air, climate,
atmosphere, temperature, humidity and light)
Pelotherapy/fangotherapy (peloids, fango or mud treatments)
Drinking seawater
Aquamedic pool/dynamic pool which use heated (body temperature)
seawater therapeutic jets (underwater jet massage).
Whirlpool (tub of hot water with high pressure jets).
Watsu (healing massage treatment performed in a warm pool. Shiatsu
under water)
Algotherapy
Aquaerobics
Affusion shower massage
Blitz shower (standing body massage with a high pressure shower jet)
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Body scrub (exfoliation body treatment).
Salt glow (exfoliation treatment with salt)
Flotation therapy (float on seawater at body temperature)
Hydrobath/Jacuzzi (bath tub with water jets that pummel all parts of
the body)
Lymphatic drainage massage
Marine aerosol treatment/inhalation therapy (individual inhalation of
ionic seawater)
Maniluve and pediluve
Sand bath
Vichy shower (hidromassage with microjets. May also include a two or
four hand massage)
Other treatments: chromatherapy, crystal and gem therapy, light
therapy, aromatherapy, two or four- handed massage, shiatsu,
irodhara, hammam (turkey steam), stone massage therapy, marine
SPA cuisine, hydrocromatherapy, halotherapy, musictherapy,
seaweed body wrap.
Thalasso Center requisites
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The International Federation of Thalassotherapy – sea and health, has
defined the fundamental requisites of a thalasso centre. The
international Thalasso Centers accreditation and certification are
based on the accomplishment of the following requisites:
1. Location on the seashore to benefit from the maritime
(climatotherapy) climate. The marine environment is rich in seawater
aerosols full of healthy substances and negative ions. The negative
ionization promotes the production of serotonin in human beings.
Serotonin has relaxing and tranquillizing effects, helping to fight
depression, stress and strains.
Thalassotherapy Centres are located on ecological
preserved
places of the coast, no more than 800 metres from the shore.
2. Using pure, fresh/live seawater and marine derived substances
(algae, seaweed, sand, mud, salts scrubs, shells, corals). The seawater
used in the individual hydrotherapy treatments has to be pure
fresh/live, without any treatment. To allow seawater mineral and trace
elements osmosis with the human skin, the seawater should be heated
according to body temperature.
• 3. Operating under medical supervision. The treatments are
prescribed by the centre Doctors, according to each customer
specific requirements. The Thalassotherapy treatment
programmes take place over at least six consecutive days, with
four or five treatments per day.
• 4. High requirement standards concerning sanitary hygiene and
purity of the seawater. To avoid surface and bottom pollution,
the seawater must be drawn from within 10 m from the sea
surface and 10 m from the sea bottom, at a safe distance from
the coast.
• 5. Continuous control of high standards of sanitary hygiene,
treatment quality and equipment safety, with feedback about
the satisfaction level of customers.
• 6. Existence of specialized talassotherapy professionals as
permanent staff members, in order to ensure high quality
standards.
• 7. Customer welcome, reception and information office.
Therapeutic indication of
thalassotherapy treatments
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Human beings are currently faced with major setbacks such as
anxiety, stress and depression. The fact that many are isolated from
nature and other human beings serves to aggravate the referred
illnesses. Thalassotherapy caters to human beings basic needs such
as physical touch by offering a wide variety of hydrotherapies and
massages.
Physical and psychological wellbeing, body’s immune system,
detoxification, chronic fatigue, insomnia, stress syndrome, tension
strains, scoliosis, sciatic, lumbalgia, brachialgia, contusions, fracture,
dislocation, osteosynthesis, calcium metabolism, childhood illness,
acne, eczema, psoriasis, skin exfoliation, cleasing, lymphatic
congestion, cellulite, swelling, myogeloses, chronic joint rheumatism,
muscular rheumatism, arthritis, fibrositis, myalgia, sprains, spastic
paralyses, sinus attacks, breathing problems, bronchitis, asthma,
laryngitis, hoarseness, headache, migraine, cervical muscle tension,
heavy legs, subacute blood and circulation problems, digestive and
intestinal problems.
Contraindication of
thalassotherapy treatments
• Acute bacteriological or viral infection; high
grade hypertension, thrombophlebitis,
thrombosis, angina pectoris, acute
cardiovascular problems, varicose veins,
acute blood and circulation problems,
venous disorders, hyperthyroidism, acute
sinusitis, acute hepatic insufficiency, kidney
malfunctioning, lymph edema, open skin
ailments/skin lesions, malignant tumours,
sun allergies/photosensitivity, recent
fracture, acute rheumatic problems,
tuberculosis.
Thalasso Hotels/Centers
localization
• From our recent research we identified two hundred
thirty four Thalasso Hotels and Centers around the
world nowadays. Fifty five in France, fifty five in
Spain, forty four in Tunisia, twenty eight in Italy,
eight in Portugal, seven in Greece. There are also
Thalasso Centers in Belgium (2), Brazil (5), Cuba (1),
Cyprus (3) Finland (1), Germany (2), Indonesia (2),
Israel (2), Jordan (2), Malta (2), Mexico (2), Monaco
(1), Morocco (5), Philippines (1), Singapore (1),Tahiti
(1), Thailand (1), Turkey (3), United Arab Emirates (1)
and the United States of America (2).
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