Karlsbad is the best notorious spa city located in West Bohemia. It was founded nearly 1350 by the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, Charles IV. Its grand roads as well as colonnades are surrounded by peaceful forested hills crisscrossed with mountain climbing and biking ways that are perfect for lovely walks all time round.
A busy cultural events calendar, many festivals and international conferences make Karlovy Vary the major & liveliest spa town in the Czech Republic visited not only by the spa-guests but also celebs. Karlovy Vary achieved its fame also thanks to its known natural liqueur named Becherovka (nicknamed "The thirteenth Spring"), Mattoni mineral water, matchless spa wafers, and Moser crystal work.
The healing mineral water from the springs in the valley of the Tepla River have been used by public from time immemorial - both for consuming as well as bathing.
Organic Health-giving Sources in Karlovy Vary.
The twelve sources that can be found here are rich in sodium, bicarbonate and sulphates. The sources are quite similar to each other with respect to their chemical makeup. Nevertheless they appear out of the land at dissimilar temperatures & contain numerous amounts of CO2. In the surroundings of Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) there are just about a hundred sources of numerous hotness and constitution. The mineral-rich mud from a close spring is also used in applications. The water and mud are used to cure patients with digestive & musculoskeletal problems, diabetes and overweight.
Health Indications in Karlovy Vary for adult patients:
Diseases of the digestive tract (functional dyspepsia gastric, gastric ulcer disorder, conditions after surgery of stomach and esophagus, intestinal disorders, Crohn's diseases, health conditions after an acute toxic hepatitis and liver injure, congenital disorders of liver function and other chronic liver medical conditions), metabolic & endocrine problems (diabetes mellitus, overweight), diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
Medicinal Indications in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) for Children:
Illnesses of the digestive tract (chronic diseases of the stomach, chronic gastritis ulceration of the stomach, lasting bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, liver disorders, hepatitis), metabolic & endocrine conditions (diabetes mellitus, overweight)
treatments available in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
Hydrotherapy: swimming, water physical exercises, aqua aerobics, Scottish showers, sauna
Baths: thermal, mineral, carbonated, dry, peat with components (peloid, iodine), Kneipp therapy, hydroxeur, soothing
Massage: classical, sub aqua, massage chair and bed, Hydro-Jet Sigoroll, lymphatic hand and instrumental
Natural therapy: galvanization, interference, small wave diathermy, magnetic therapy, ultrasound therapy, vacuo-compressio, myostimulator
Light therapy: sunray, biolamp, solarium, laser
Thermo-therapy: mud wraps, paraffine, lavatherm, pelotherm, cryotherapy
Kinesio therapy: group, pilates, private
Reflexology treatment: inhalation, acupuncture, mobilization & handling, reflexive foot massage, underwater acupressure, soft tissue procedures
Supplementary procedury: CO2 insufflation, intestinal lavage with mineral water, oxygen therapy, drinking therapy
VIP Spa visitors of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad)
The record of remarkable figures that visited Karlovy Vary is thanks to the fame of the town extremely extended. The spa city has been the desired summer alternative especially for numerous musicians, writers & poets but also polititions. Among them was Johann W. Goethe as well as the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, German thinker Johann Fichte Gottlieb, German writer Heinrich Heine, the mistress of Royal leader Franz Joseph I, the actress Katharina Schratt, Rothschild Rockefeller, entrepreneur Arthur Krupp, Izzet Pasha from Constantinople, Chinese Ambassador Chen Soen Ling. Each year the town is in addition visited by numerous famous actors and film directors thanks to the annual Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) International Movie Festival.
Author Resource:
Author is a Czech Spa history and treatments expert. He is the head therapist of Spa-resorts.cz, leader in organizing spa resort retreats in famous Czech spa townKarlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) and other SPA destinations such as Marienbad, Franzienbad and etc.
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