They help adults and children in Janské Lázně
Patients mainly come to Janské Lázně with mobility problems after large joint replacements, strokes, and respiratory problems. Children with cerebral palsy are also treated here.
Janské Lázně is a state-run spa for adult and pediatric patients, where they primarily treat musculoskeletal diseases. "In our Vesna Children's Hospital, a patient has a children's exoskeleton, a "walker" that enables disabled people, in this case children, to walk, the first in Central Europe. It was custom-made for him by the MEBSTER company," says the director of Janske Lazne, Martin Voženílek.
The Vesna Children's Hospital specializes in the treatment of children under 18 years of age with, among other things, nervous disorders including muscular dystrophy.
What health problems does your spa focus on?
As for adults, we usually admit patients early after major joint replacements or strokes, who are transferred directly from acute orthopedic, neurological, or rehabilitation hospital beds. We also care for patients with muscle diseases (myopathy), neurological patients with multiple sclerosis and other diagnoses, including those with a poor prognosis, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We also treat patients after spinal cord injuries or head injuries, after oncological treatment, patients with respiratory diseases, and quite often also conditions after thyroid surgery.
And the treatment of children?
This is where the unique Vesna Children's Hospital is located, which is one of the largest and most modern facilities of its kind in the Czech Republic. It continues a long tradition of treating cerebral palsy, especially children's. It specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents under 18 years of age with nervous disorders, including muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, as well as the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and conditions after injuries and orthopedic surgeries. Among other things, we also treat metabolic disorders and problems with endocrine glands, including the treatment of obesity, as well as respiratory diseases. An intensive neurorehabilitation program has been newly introduced for patients with cerebral palsy to expand therapeutic options.
Are you noticing any changes in the problems patients come to you with?
Clients come to our spa with a wide range of diagnoses. These include mainly neurological diseases, represented to the greatest extent by cerebral palsy, orthopedic diseases, conditions after operations, after injuries and after oncological treatment, and respiratory diseases. A significant shift has occurred in the involvement of the family in the treatment process. Now the vast majority of stays are accompanied by a family member. Basic spa treatment lasts 28 days, but in a specialist treatment institute it can be extended to up to 8 weeks. We recommend a treatment stay for children, usually after reaching the age of two, with an escort; earlier is possible by individual agreement.
And what about adult patients?
At the spa, these are mainly movement and respiratory diagnoses. We have registered a larger number of respiratory patients treated in connection with
with covid, otherwise the composition of patients does not change over time. We also treat patients on rehabilitation beds of a specialized medical center
institute, this is a wide spectrum of people, starting with vertebropathies who are being treated for back pain, through conditions after joint replacements, after injuries,
strokes to the most severe conditions after combined injuries including brain injuries.
Do you also offer wellness stays, is interest in them increasing?
The interest in wellness stays is great and we see an increase every year. The preferred stays are most often weekly with massages, bubble baths, peat and paraffin wraps. But also short-term or weekend stays. The program is aimed at those who do not have much free time, but are still looking for a way to restore their physical and mental strength.
How did the Covid period and the subsequent higher financial burden affect you?
The Covid period was of course burdensome due to the uncertainty that prevailed. As for self-paying stays, the Covid Spa subsidy title helped the spas a lot, the aim was to support spa tourism and partially replace the loss of foreign clientele in spa facilities in the Czech Republic. Currently, interest in self-paying stays is stabilized. We will see what next year will bring due to the price increases that prevail in almost all sectors.
What news would you like to draw attention to?
I would like to mention, for example, virtual reality therapy and molecular hydrogen therapy. In virtual reality therapy, the patient rehabilitates in a virtual environment, which is extremely pleasant and motivating for him. He can walk through the forest, pick fruit, catch fish or look for constellations in the night sky. We have been using it for both children and adult patients since the beginning of this year. This method of rehabilitation motivates and stimulates patients to push their personal boundaries. For example, patients after a stroke can try out activities in applications that help them return to normal life.
What problems does molecular hydrogen help with?
Molecular hydrogen therapy helps mainly with acute inflammatory and inflammatory rheumatic diseases, proliferative diseases, chronic and chronic autoimmune diseases, chronic injuries, fatigue syndrome, also with neurodegenerative diseases, skin diseases and the like.
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Author: Blanka Drahosova
