Karlsbad is the best acknowledged spa town located in West Bohemia. It was established approximately 1350 by the Holy Roman Emperor & King of Bohemia, Charles 4. Its imposing roads & colonnades are surrounded by peaceful wooded hills crisscrossed with climbing and biking ways that are ideal for enjoyable walks all time of the year round.
A busy cultural events calendar, various festivals & international conferences make Carlsbad the largest & liveliest spa town in the Czech Republic visited not only by the spa-guests but also celebrities. Karlovy Vary achieved its fame also thanks to its well-known natural liqueur called Becherovka (nicknamed "The 13th Spring"), Mattoni mineral water, exclusive spa wafers, and Moser crystal glass.
The therapeutic mineral water from the springs in the valley of the Tepla River have been used by public from time immemorial - both for drinking as well as bathing.
Organic Curative Resources in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary).
The twelve sources that can be found here are rich in sodium, bicarbonate as well as sulphates. The sources are quite similar to each other with respect to their chemical makeup. Though they appear out of the land at diverse temps & include a variety of amounts of CO2. In the surroundings of Karlovy Vary there are just about a hundred springs of various warmth and composition. The mineral-rich mud from a close spring is as well used in therapies. The mineral water and mud are used to deal with patients with digestive and musculoskeletal conditions, diabetes and obesity.
Health Indications in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) for adult patients:
Disorders of the digestive tract (functional dyspepsia gastric, gastric ulcer disorder, conditions following surgery of stomach & esophagus, intestinal issues, Crohn's diseases, states after an acute toxic hepatitis & liver harm, congenital disorders of liver function & other chronic liver health conditions), metabolic & endocrine problems (diabetes mellitus, obesity), conditions of the musculoskeletal system.
Medicinal Indications in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) for Children:
Diseases of the digestive tract (chronic diseases of the stomach, chronic gastritis ulceration of the stomach, lasting bowel diseases, Crohn's illness, liver conditions, hepatitis), metabolic and endocrine disorders (diabetes mellitus, overweight)
types of procedures available in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad)
Water therapy: swimming, water workouts, aqua aerobics, Scottish showers, sauna
Baths: thermal, mineral, carbonated, dry, peat with substances (peloid, iodine), Kneipp remedy, hydroxeur, relaxing
Massage: classical, underwater, massage chair & bed, Hydro-Jet Sigoroll, lymphatic hand & instrumental
Natural therapy: galvanization, interference, small wave diathermy, magnetic therapy, ultrasound therapy, vacuo-compressio, myostimulator
Light therapy: sunray, biolamp, solarium, laser
Thermotherapy: mud wraps, paraffine, lavatherm, pelotherm, cryotherapy
Kinesio therapy: group, pilates, personal
Reflexology treatment: inhalation, acupuncture, mobilization and manipulation, knee-jerk foot massage, underwater acupressure, soft tissue techniques
Supplementary procedury: CO2 insufflation, intestinal lavage with mineral water, oxygen therapy, drinking cure
VIP Tourists of Karlovy Vary
The list of remarkable records that visited Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) is thanks to the fame of the town incredibly long. The spa town has been the most wanted summer season resort especially for numerous musicians, writers and poets but also polititions. Amongst 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 Ruler Franz Joseph I, the actress Katharina Schratt, Rothschild Rockefeller, entrepreneur Arthur Krupp, Izzet Pasha from Constantinople, Chinese Ambassador Chen Soen Ling. Every year the city is as well visited by numerous well-known artists and film directors thanks to the yearly Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) International Movie Fest.
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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