BATH SPA

Busko, located just 48 km from Kielce, received its city charter in 1281, and was a salt-works centre for centuries. This is the most sunny spa in Poland, valued for its sulphide waters and beneficial insolation conditions. The spa lies on the outskirts of the town, 1.5 km from the centre where the historical Marconi sanatorium is located, surrounded by the beautiful spa park.

Busko Music Festival (June-July), Busko Folklore Meetings (May).

soccer field, volleyball fields, tennis courts, sports hall, two indoor pools and one outdoor pool.

Busko – Wiślica (90 km), Busko – Solec Zdrój (27 km), Pińczów – Wiślica (39 km). All the tourist routes are suitable for cross-country skiing and biking trips. There are two interesting reserves of fauna and flora near Busko: Owczary, with sul

The beginnings of Busko date back to the 12^th Century, when a shepherds settlement arose around the St. Leonard Church. In 1185 the owner of Busko and its neighborhood – knight Deresław – brought Norbertan nuns to the town. Later he bequeathed his entire estate to them. From 1241, through the following several hundred years Busko was the property of the convent. In 1252 the town received from Boleslaw Wstydliwy a financial immunity, in which the king allowed the convent to exploit the brine. It is the first mention of using the mineral water found in Busko area.

 

In 1287 Busko received municipal rights from prince Leszek Czarny. Advantageous location of the town on the crossing trade routes contributed to the decision of king Władysław Jagiełło in 1412 to give the citizenry the privilege to organize weekly markets and two fairs per year. From then on the town flourished throughout the 15^th and 16^th Centuries. At that time it was famous for trade and cloth.

From the mid 18^th Century wars and anti-middle-class policy of the aristocracy impoverished the town. A period of renewed economic boom was caused by the discovery of brine springs in 1776. Salt exploitation began, but soon it was abandoned due to unprofitable production. In 1808 doctor of medicine Mr. Winterfeld from Pińczów conducted the first research on the application of local waters in healing. First patients, called at that time “bath guests”, started to visit Busko. In 1819 the property of the Norbertan nuns was claimed by the government. After the fire of the town in 1820, Busko was taken on lease by gen. Feliks Rzewuski. Knowing the healing properties of the town’s mineral waters he commissioned building, with the help of a Warsaw company, a baths complex according to the design of known Italian architect Enrico Marconi. In 1828 as many as 202 guests were healing in Busko.

In 1836 the official opening of the health resort took place. Later, the resort was taken on lease by a company of Warsaw industrialists. In 1869 Busko was deprived of municipal rights by the tsar administration, but the health resort was still functioning. In 1880 the lease was taken over by doctor Andrzej Dobrzański. During the 15 years of his activity the resort grew and developed considerably. It then became one of the most popular health resorts, not only in Poland but also abroad.

During the First World War Busko found itself under the Austrian occupation. In 1915 it became the headquarters of the Stopnica district. A year later the town regained municipal rights. After the war, as early as in 1919 first patients started visiting the resort anew. In the interwar period the resort underwent intense development initiated by dr. Szymon Starkiewicz, and thanks to the community’s help the “Górka” sanatorium for children was built. During the Second World War the town became the place of numerous guerilla military operations: forces of the National Army assassinated the local Gestapo chief at the central town square. After the war, being in an agricultural region, the town functioned as administrative, trade, and service center for the surrounding villages. Nevertheless, the health resort remained the main factor in the town’s growth and development. Busko of today is a dynamically growing spa, administrative center, the capital of the Busko district. The surrounding villages constitute an agricultural region, where vegetable and fruit growing dominate, and where the most popular rural economic activity is rural tourism.

dermatological, heart, neurological and rheumatic diseases, post-traumatic disorders.

• rheumatoid arthritis and related disorders,
• rigor spinal arthritis,
• postoperative states of limbs and spine,
• systemic lupus erythematosus,
• gout,
• osteoarthritis,
• circumarticular rheumatism
• posttraumatic states of soft tissues, joints and bones,
• condition after orthopedic surgery of bones and joints,
• posture defects,
• osteoporosis.

• sciatica and arm plexus complex,
• neuralgias and chronic inflammations of nerve roots and plexuses,
• conditions after injuries of peripheral nerves and nerve plexuses,
• conditions after polyneuritis,
• post-stroke states,
• post-encephalitis and post-meningitis states,
• condition after transverse myelitis,
• sclerosis multiplex,
• Parkinson disease,
• conditions after spinal injuries,
• conditions after Heine-Medin disease

• chronic dermatitis, also alergic,
• cuticle callosity disorders,
• sclerodermal and atrophic skin diseases,
• vascular skin diseases,
• occupational and industrial dermatitis.

• type I diabetes,
• type II diabetes,
• gout,
• obesity related to circulatory system diseases, motor organ changes, or lipid balance disorders.

• conditions after gynecologic operations / with the exception of recently diagnosed cancerous changes,
• certain disorders related to climacteric.

• parodontosis

mineral waters, iodine-bromine brines, sulphide waters (H2S+HS 20-45 mg/l), therapeutic mud from the Siwice deposit.

The only VACUMED apparatus available in Poland

 – spacecraft technology  employed to fight lower extremities diseases and  venous complaints.

The procedure aims to invigorate blood circulation both  in lower extremities and venous system and to enhance venous and lymphatic flow.

Negative pressure constitutes the physical basis for this kind of treatment.

• Preventing circulatory disturbances of lower limbs
• Lymphoedema of lower limbs (cellulite)
• Post-traumatic oedema of lower limbs

Hypostatic oedema of lower limbs

The only AQUA-MASSAGE apparatus available in Poland specially imported from the USA!

The treatment profile of Busko is determined by the rich supplies of sulphidic/hydrogen-sulphide saline waters, containing dissolved hydrogen sulfide, and hydrosulfide and sulphuric ions. The most popular form of sulfide water application are bathtub baths. The sulphur penetrates into the human skin, and it is also let into the organism through the respiratory tract together with the inhaled air. Sulfide waters exert local as well as overall effect on skin. In low concentration they increase keratoplasticity – they facilitate creation of elastic cuticle, while in high concentration they exhibit keratolytic properties – they soften and peel the cuticle. Sulfide water baths raise the level of hemoglobine and erythrocytes in blood. Also, a decrease in uric acid concentration can be observed in patients suffering from gout, and a decrease of glucose level in patients suffering from diabetes. The levels of cholesterol and triglycerides decrease as well. Moreover, sulfide waters exhibit bactericidal, antiparasitic and fungicidal properties, they stop arteriosclerotic processes and facilitate metabolism. Combining thermal action and a direct sulphur effect, the waters improve blood supply of joints and reduce articulatory pains. Sulfide waters are recommended especially in degenerative diseases of motor organs. Good effects can be achieved in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, rigid spinal arthritis, and gout; also after surgery related to a degenerative state of hip joints. As to nervous system diseases, the treatment includes neuralgias, neurititis during final stages of disease, discopathy, spinal pains, states after surgery related to discopathy, etc. In dermatology, sulfide waters are used in treatment of psoriasis and its variations, seborrheal types of eczema, dermatitis, cuticle callosity disorder, some types of mycosis, sclerodermia, etc. Sulfide waters are indicated to be employed in treatment of peripheral circulation disorder, especially concerning the lower limbs. Good effects can be achieved in treatment of chronic poisonings with heavy metals (mercury, lead). Likewise, positive effects can be observed in orthopaedics, in treatment of posttraumatic states of joints and bones.

• underwater high pressure massage, air-water massage, air massage
• underwater high pressure massage, air-water massage, air massage, with the addition of peat emulsion, the Dead Sea mud, the Dead Sea salt or algas
• vibratory massage
• vibratory massage with infra-red radiation sauna
• steam sauna
• a set of revitalising, relaxing, and cellulite reducing procedures

The salt used for baths abounds in silicon, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, iodide, fluorine, bromine, sodium, aluminum compounds as well as other elements. These special chemical compositions are recognised for life  processes. They are especially effective in healing skin complaints (e.g. psoriasis); allergic, rheumatic, and seborrhoeic disorders;  mild irritation and inflammation of the skin: the skin is deeply cleansed and nourished.

THE DEAD SEA MUD WRAPPINGS

The procedure, which revitalises the body, reduces cellulite, restores skin firmness. It imparts a relaxed feeling to your muscles as well as your body.

The peat exhibits anti-inflammatory, analgesic, germicidal, bacteriostatic and regenerating properties. Baths may be applied in some rheumatoid and neurological disorders as well as post-traumatic motor functions

Carbonic acid bath (CO2) is enabled due to mixing water with carbonic acid anhydride.

The carbonic acid anhydride contained in the water exudes on the skin in the form of gas bubbles, and causes many changes in the organism due to the expanding of the capillary, arterial and venous vessels. In consequence, arterial blood pressure decreases. CO2 bath also exhibits soothing and relaxing properties.

-    cardiac failure

-    post-myocarditis condition

-    cardiac degeneration

-    obesity

-    neurosis

Therapeutic mud is a kind of peat which contains organic substances, such as humic acid, bitumen, proteins, amino acids, resins and waxes, non-decayed components of plants, and inorganic elements – minerals. The therapeutic mud is used in baths, wrappings, and plasters.

Facilitates absorption of effusions which appear in different stages of disease, exhibits painkilling properties, improves blood supply, lowers muscular tension.

-         degeneration of spine and joints

-         rheumatoid diseases during remission

-         circumarticular inflammations

-         neuralgias

Massage, which, in its classic form, consists in mechanical exertion and release of pressure on the organism’s tissues, is one of the oldest physiotherapeutic methods.

There are two basic ways of performing a massage – manual and mechanical.

The manual massage is mainly classical massage. The mechanical massage can be divided into underwater, underpressure, vibratory and vortical.

Massages are indicated in all those diseases which bring the necessity to improve the skin turgor and nourishment, remove skin blood supply disorder, remove venous and lymphatic stasis, facilitate muscular relaxation and regulate their tension, kill pain, stimulate the metabolism, provide psychic relaxation, etc.

-         disorders of muscular functions as consequence of muscular or articulatory diseases, injuries,     inactivity

-         functional disorders of respiratory muscles (e.g. in some lungs diseases)

-         rheumatic diseases

-         states after motor organ surgery

-         posttraumatic states

-         muscular strain

-         various edemas

-         neuralgias, spinal pains

-         metabolic disorders

This treatment, called also underwater shower, is performed in a bathtub with a water jet of certain pressure. Depending on the body part which is to undergo the massage – e.g. spine, shoulder, lower limbs – the patient assumes appropriate position.

Underwater massage exhibits soothing and relaxing properties, reduces arterial blood pressure, and decreases dermal blood congestion due to the dilation of blood vessels.

-         neuroses

-         psychic exhaustion

-         neuralgias, especially concerning the sciatic nerve

-         articulatory rheumatism

-         chronic respiratory diseases

-         peripheral blood supply disorders

-         post-fracture states

-         spinal pains

This treatment exploits the thermal effect of water and its mechanical action of vortical motion. The treatments are carried out in water tanks adapted to upper limbs, lower limbs, or the whole body. The tanks are equipped with mechanical drives which cause the vortical motion of water.

The whirlpool massage (whirlpool bath) constitutes a form of soft massage combined with the effect of heat. The heat causes relaxation of tissues, reduction of muscular tension, improvement of blood supply, and decrease in pain.

-         chronic inflammations

-         posttraumatic states

-         chronic arthritis

-         circumarticular inflammation

-         scar-like contractures

This thermal massage device serves to perform physiotherapeutic treatments in the lower limbs area. Due to a simultaneous combination and application of a number of physiotherapeutic agents, including a new kind of dry agent – aerowilat, a considerable improvement in the patient’s health is achieved in difficult cases, while the overall time of therapy is shortened. Aerowilat acts here as heat carrier.

-         eases pain

-         improves mobility of joints

-         improves blood supply

-         relaxes muscles

-         general soothing

-         injuries /after proper care/

-         pains and edemas

-         joint contractures

-         rheumatic diseases

-         vascular disorders

This thermal massage device serves to perform physiotherapeutic treatments in the lower limbs area. Due to a simultaneous combination and application of a number of physiotherapeutic agents, including a new kind of dry agent – aerowilat, a considerable improvement in the patient’s health is achieved in difficult cases, while the overall time of therapy is shortened. Aerowilat acts here as heat carrier.

-         eases pain

-         improves mobility of joints

-         improves blood supply

-         relaxes muscles

-         general soothing

-         injuries /after proper care/

-         pains and edemas

-         joint contractures

-         rheumatic diseases

-         vascular disorders

The treatment called electroaqueous/chamber bath is effective in some cardiovascular diseases. Depending on the direction of current flow during the treatment, different therapeutic effects can be attained.

The four-chamber bath increases or decreases the excitability of the central nervous system. Lowering or raising blood pressure can be induced, depending on the direction of the current flow. The treatment exhibits painkilling action.

-         cardiovascular disorders

-         inclination towards too high or too low blood pressure

-         different sorts of pains

The device generates interference currents canned the Nemec currents. Those are medium-frequency currents, amplitude-modulated in low frequency. They arise as consequence of the interference in the tissues of two alternate medium-frequency sine currents, whose frequencies differ only slightly.

-         painkilling properties

-         stimulates contraction of skeletal muscles

-         dilates blood vessels, thus improving peripheral circulation

-         influence on autonomic nervous system

-         facilitates nourishing processes and metabolism of tissues

-         lowers the tension of sympathetic nervous system

-         pains during degenerative disease of spinal joints and limbs joints

-         neuralgias

-         circumarticular inflammations

-         condition after motor organ injuries

-         vascular disorders

-         migraine

-         autogenic cyanosis

Iontophoresis is an electrotherapeutic treatment which consists in letting therapeutic ions into tissues with the use of electric field forces. Therefore, iontophoresis can only exploit those chemical compounds which undergo electrolytic dissociation. Such compounds are called electrolytes. The duration of the treatment and the proper medicine is selected by the doctor. 

Depending on the applied medicine, the effect may be e.g. anti-inflammatory or painkilling.

-         inflammatory states within joints

-         pains of different origin

-         excessive muscular tension, and contractures

-         peripheral motor/vascular disorders

-         difficult bone adhesion

KRIOPOL device allows local cooling of the patient’s body through the contact with cold nitrogen vapor at temperature below 150C.

-         kills pain, dampens inflammatory activity, lowers muscular tension, reduces edemas

-         improves clinic and functional condition, which consists in extending the range of mobility of the cooled joints, and in increasing muscular strength

-         reduces the duration of healing injuries

-         soothing burns

-         rheumatoid diseases

-         injuries (dislocations, sprains, fractures, tendon damage)

-         discopathies, tendopathies, mialgias

-         postoperative edemas

-         burns

The effect of infrared laser radiation on the human body consists in letting a higher-intensity energy to tissues situated inside the human organism, which is not possible with normal physical methods.

Due to its painkilling, anti-inflamatory, anti-edemic, bioregenerative, and wound-healing properties, the laser is used in sports rheumatology, dentistry, dermatology, and medical cosmetics.

-         osteoarthitis

-         pains during discopathy in the lumbar and cervical spine sections

-         circumarticular inflammations

-         syndromes caused by strain of muscles and circumarticular soft tissues

-         tendonitis, bunion, inflammations of the tendinous sheath

-         difficult bone adhesion

-         chronic inflammations

-         peripheral nerves neuralgias

-         diabetic neuropathy

-         hard-healing wounds and ulcerations

Magnetronic provides a therapy with a pulsating magnetic field of low frequency. Under the influence of the magnetic field, the ions inside body cells relocate causing hyperpolarization of the cell membrane, thus strengthening metabolism, especially during the undergoing energetic processes. This increases exploitation of oxygen by the cell. Improved blood supply in the cell during the operation of the magnetic field raises the pressure of oxygen potential.

It has been observed that the application of the magnetic field kills pain, prevents inflammations, and relaxes muscular tension.

-         delayed treatment of bone fractures

-         injuries, strains, dislocations, injuries of ligaments, injuries of tendons

-         neuralgias, neuroblastomas, phantom pains

-         disorders of arterial peripheral blood circulation

It is a device generating high-frequency electromagnetic vibrations.

The field helps to kill pain, and heal inflammations and ulcerations. It also causes hematomal absorption.

-         circumarticular inflammations

-         hard-healing wounds

-         trophic ulcerations

-         postoperative states, especially related to dental surgery

-         posttraumatic states of soft tissues

-         inflammations of appendages and uterus

-         inflammations of nasal collateral sinuses

-         posttraumatic hematomas

-         certain skin diseases

It is an electrostimulator of high electrotherapeutic effectiveness.

Modulated electric currents of medium-frequency impulses stimulate nervous and muscular structures. They are felt by the patients as pleasant vibration.

-    muscular pareses

Consists in the stimulation of the spastic muscle with a series of impulses of appropriate therapeutic electric currents.

Normalization of “muscular game”, reduction of muscular spasticity.

diseases in which spastic muscular paresis is present, e.g. post-stroke states, sclerosis multiplex, children’s cerebral palsy

Diadynamic currents, called also Barnard currents, are created as a consequence of superimposition of single-half rectified sine alternate current on the direct current run.

Depending on the use of one of the currents of different frequency, we can attain the following properties: killing pain, reduction of muscular tension, dilation of blood vessels, muscular mass growth. The currents are also used in electrostimulation of healthy muscles or slightly injured, e.g. pareses or inactivity-caused atrophies.

Galvanization is an electrotherapeutic treatment which exploits direct current.

The therapeutic effect of galvanization depends on different electrode positioning. Depending on methods, decrease in muscular excitability can be achieved; it also exhibits painkilling properties, and dilates blood vessels.

-         osteoarthritis

-         discopathy

-         chronic neuritis

-         flaccid paralysis

-        peripheral circulation disorders

The device generates a continuous ultrasound wave, and modulated with impulses of the following factors: 1 : 10 and 1 : 20.

-         painkilling action

-         lowers muscular tension

-         creation of bioactive agents

-         dilates blood vessels

-         inhibits the sympathetic system

-         stops inflammatory processes

-         accelerates absorption in tissues

-         stimulates production of bioactive histamine-like substances

-         osteoarthritis

-         circumarticular inflammations

-         calcar

-         trifacial nerve neuralgia

The Sollux lamp provides irradiation by infrared and visible light. The energy of the radiation absorbed by tissues increases the kinetic energy of their molecules, thus increasing the tissues’ thermal state (causes thermal effect).

As a consequence of the radiation, the flow of arterial blood through the tissues increases, muscular tension relaxes, metabolism is facilitated, dermal receptors are stimulated, and the pain threshold rises (which means painkilling action).

-         chronic subactute inflammatory states

-         chronic arthritis and circumarticular inflammation

-         neuralgias and pains of different origin

-         condition after bacteria-originated dermatitis and soft tissue inflammations

The treatment consists in general irradiation with ultraviolet light.

Irradiation with the quartz lamp leads to photochemical reactions, and the creation of photochemical erythema called pigmentation. The effect of the quartz lamp irradiation is the production of anti-rachitis agents. The irradiation exhibits bactericidal properties.

-         psoriasis

-         osteoarthritis of large joints

-         neuralgia of the sciatic nerve

-         soft-tissue rheumatism

-         acne

-         boils

-         trophic ulcerations

-         hard-healing wounds

Polarized light increases energetic activity of the cellular membrane, stimulates regenerative processes, and raises absorption of oxygen in tissues. Furthermore, polarized light exerts a direct effect on nerve endings, and on the entire nervous system, thus causing advantageous changes within the whole organism.

Positive properties of Bioptron lamp therapy were proven in the following areas:

-         in physiotherapy, sports medicine (muscular overstretch, soft-tissue hematomas, tendonitis)

-         in surgery (e.g. hard-healing wounds, burns, skin grafts, cheloits, etc.)

-         in rheumatology (e.g. in case of muscular pains and general rheumatic pains, acute arthritis, spinal and circumarticular pains)

-         in dermatology (in case of skin diseases related to infections and alergies, in different types of herpes and in neurodermatitis)

-         in cosmetics – e.g. reduction of wrinkles, and as additiona treatment

The operation of this device consists in spraying a liquid by ultrasounds of sufficient power. The ultrasound waves cause the creation of so-called ultrasound fountain and aerosol mist in a tank containing milk.

Healing bronchial cramps present during bronchial asthma and spastic bronchitis /anti-contraction medicines/. Separating the secretion coagulated inside the bronchial tree and causing its dilution /expectorant medicines/. Healinh inflammatory states /anti-inflammatory medicines/. The ultrasound inhalation can be also applied with antibiotics. The use of antibiotics must be preceded by the examination of immunity of the bronchial bacterial flora against such treatments. They have to be applied sensibly /alergic test is required/ as they may sometimes cause negative effects.

-         nasal and sinus diseases

-         throat diseases

-         larynx diseases

-         diseases of lungs and bronchi

-         colds

Gymnastics – kinesic therapy is the foundation of the rehabilitation.

Effect of the exercises on the human body

Movement and work are factors which are responsible for the development and growth of our organs, especially the motor organ.

JOINTS AND BONES -          prophylactic exercises keep full range of movement in the joint, and in cases of mobility constraints they can reduce such constraints. Moreover, exercises and movements shape the articular surfaces. As to the soft parts of the joint, the articular capsule, and the ligaments, they determine their elasticity and resilience. Immobility leads to decalcification of bones, disorders of their blood supply and pains.

MUSCLES – the exercises shape healthy muscles, increasing their mass and strength. In case of strokes or pareses properly conducted exercises can reactivate muscles and improve their strength. Besides, movement and exercises keep correct length and elasticity of muscles.

NERVOUS SYSTEM – passive movement, changing the position of a limb and stretching the articular capsule, acts as a stimulus for the nervous system. The active exercises play the role of a stimulus for the central nervous system, developing motor memory, and the speed and easiness of reacting to external stimuli. Additionally, special exercises can eliminate or reduce balance disorders and movement coordination disorders.

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM – elastic plumonary tissue and respiratory muscles easily subject to the effects of the exercises. Through a proper application of the exercises a patient can be taught how to breathe correctly, and increase the effective capacity of his/her lungs, which is the main factor in regulating the level of oxidization of the circulating blood. Proper respiratory performance, elastic and resilient plumonary tissue, and strong respiratory muscles shape the chest and posture.

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM – properly dosed exercises, movement, and work increase efficiency and performance of the circulatory system, while lack of exercise, movement and effort lead to just the opposite. In disorders and pathologic changes of the circulatory system, adapting it to the basic daily activity and work can be achieved by graduated exercises. Exercises and movement, due to the muscular work, improve the efficiency of the peripheral circulatory system. They facilitate the inflow of the arterial blood to the periphery, but most of all they support the outflow of the venous blood and lymph.

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND GENITOURINARY SYSTEM – exercises and movement also increase performance of the smooth muscles, and the efficiency of abdominal and pelvic organs. Due to the application of proper exercises we can improve the stomach and intestines function, and indirectly improve the performance of liver and kidneys. Exercises and movement prevent constipation and deposition of urine in urinary tracts, and thus they prevent infection and creation of uroliths.

A device for physiotherapeutic massage, is destined for a massage of those patients who require horizontal-position rehabilitation, with the elements of dry massage and thermal therapy.

Exhibits regenerative, rehabilitating, and therapeutic properties.

Regenerative massage causes positive changes in the metabolism of cells – especially muscular cells, -  activates circulatory processes, induces the feeling of relaxation and psychical comfort.

Rehabilitating massage is applied in cases of osteoarthritis, and spinal degeneration, and during rehabilitation of the muscular system.

Healing massage is recommended in spinal pains, in cases of strains of the articulatory and bone system, discopathy, posture defects, rigid spinal arthritis, osteoarthritis, and sciatica and shoulder neuralgia.

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