Use of natural radon waters in patients with occupational arthrosis

Th e results of using natural radon waters in the form of General or four-chamber baths and ozonopuncture in patients with occupational diseases of the joints and spine at the rehabilitation stage are presented. Studies have shown that the course use of radon therapy in combination with ozone therapy has a pronounced analgesic eff ect, anti-infl ammatory eff ect, stimulates the general sedative eff ect on the central nervous system, helps to restore the volume of movements in the aff ected joints, prevents the weighting of the joint process and the development of dystrophic changes in the musculoskeletal system.

The aim of the study is to study the eff ect of natural radon waters combined with ozone therapy on the dynamics of functional indicators based on motor activity data in patients with occupational diseases of the joints.

Patients with occupational diseases of the joints in rehabilitation were prescribed general radon or four-chamber baths in combination with ozone therapy (the main group). A control group of patients received radon baths by a similar method without introducing ozone. Before and aft er treatment, studies of functional activity in the aff ected joints were conducted: the volume of movements, the functional Leken index, which takes into account the severity of pain at rest and under motor load, pain assessment on a visual analog scale, echography of the aff ected joints, adaptive response according to L.Kh. Garkavi. Th e use of general or four-chamber radon baths in combination with ozone therapy in the main group allowed to quickly and eff ectively normalize the functional activity of joints, relieve pain, increase the body’s adaptive reserves to external stress factors, normalize sleep and restore working capacity. In the control group, changes in indicators did not have a signifi cant degree of signifi cance.

The use of General or four-chamber radon baths in combination with ozone therapy at the rehabilitation stage in patients with occupational diseases of the joints causes an improvement in the functional activity of the musculoskeletal system, accelerates the disappearance of pain, relieves infl ammation, returns performance, normalizes the body’s adaptation to external infl uences. 

1. Kotelnikov G.P., Kosareva V.V., Arshin V.V. Occupational diseases of the musculoskeletal system fr om professional overstrain. Samara; 1997 (in Russian).

2. Nаsonov Е.L. International decade dedicated to bone and joint damage. RMZh. Russkiy meditsinskiy zhurnal. 2002; 10(22): 991 (in Russian).

3. Kornienko L.V., Sonich. E.И., Arhipov O.G. Features of joint echography in patients with diseases obtained at work from the infl uence of adverse factors. Meditsina v Kuzbasse. 2006; (5): 58–9 (in Russian).

4. Anishkina N.M., Antonets V.A. Studies of the musculoskeletal system of a person by vibration accompanying locomotion acts. In: Medical biomechanics. Vol. 3. Riga; 1986: 20–5 (in Russian).

5. Romashkina L.V., Vodyanov N.M., Pomytkina N.J., Avdonchenko T.S. Organization and a choice of medical streams of miners with postt raumatic arthrosis of large joints of the extremities. Meditsina v Kuzbasse. 2006; (5): 102–4 (in Russian).

6. Noskova A.M. Problems of physical rehabilitation for osteoarthritis of the knee. LFK i massazh. 2005; 32: 7–13 (in Russian).

7. Danilov I.P., Zakharenkov V.V., Oleshchenko A.M., Shavlova O.P., Surzhikov D.V., Korsakova T.G. et al. Occupational diseases in aluminium workers — possible ways of solving the problem. Byulleten’ Vostochno-Sibirskogo nauchnogo tsentra SO RA MN. 2010; (4): 17–20 (in Russian).

8. Danilov I.P., Oleshchenko A.M., Tsai L.V., Bolshakov V.V. Monitoring and management of risk of occupational diseases at an aluminium factory. Med. truda i prom. ekol. 2006; (6): 10–3 (in Russian). 9. Alekseeva L.I. Basic achievements in osteoarthrosis treatment. Kachestvo zhizni. Meditsina. 2003; (3): 34–8 (in Russian).

9. Shulutko B.I., Makarenko S.V. Standards of diagnostics and treatment of internal diseases. 4th ed. St. Petersburg: Elbi-SPb.; 2007 (in Russian).

10. Bogolyubov V.N., Ponomarenko G,N. General physiotherapy. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2003 (in Russian).

11. Ponomarenko G.N., ed. Private Individual physiotherapy. Moscow: Meditsina; 2005 (in Russian).

12. Berglezov M.A., Ugnivenko V.I., Nadgeriev V.M. Comprehensive treatment of patients with severe dysfunction of the lower extremities on an outpatient basis. Moscow: TsITO; 1999 (in Russian).