title: [Dead Sea and Tiberias as health resort areas for patients suffering from different types of arthritis].
abstract: In the last two decades balneotherapy and climatotherapy have been shown to be effective in cases of inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis and non-inflammatory arthritis such as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia. This review presents different modalities of balneotherapy, their mechanism of action, side-effects and major contraindications. The article also summarizes all the publications on clinical trials conducted in the Dead Sea and Tiberias.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine 'D' Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Beer Sheva. ssukenik@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Shaul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sukenik
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abu-Shakra
authors.forename: Shlomi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kudish
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Flusser
mesh_terms: D001168:Arthritis / Q000145:classification / Q000628:therapy*; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000628:therapy*; D001452:Balneology; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006294:Health Resorts; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel