BATH SPA

This bath spa resort is one of the oldest in Slovakia. Lucky bath spa is located in mountaneous, south facing valley, under the hillside of Choc, between Orava and Liptov region, 621 meters above the sea level. It is 14 km far north-east of Ruzomberok, which is 280 km far from the capital Bratislava on the way Bratislava-Zilina-Kosice.

This bath spa resort is situated only 75 kilometers far from the international airport in Poprad (High Tatras). You can get there by car by highway or use the train or bus connection.

By plane from international airport in Poprad, then by train or bus to Ruzomberok (80 km) and from here - by bus or taxi to Lucky (15 km)

Train - railway station in Ruzomberok, then by bus or taxi to Lucky

Bus - Bus Stop in Ruzomberok (coach lines), from here by bus or taxi to Lucky

Car - international road E50 (Zilina - Kosice), turn to Lucky, in Liptovska Tepla turn to Lucky (5 km)

History:

Lucky bath spa belongs to the oldest spa in Slovakia. Most of present balneohistorians connect the history of the spa with the written balneographic notices of H. J. N. Crantz "Gesundbrunnen der Osterreichischen Monarchie" from 1777. The history of bath spa has been written since 1761, when the proprietor, Adam Turjanský, built the first bath house. It is also worth mentioning the year 1736, when Matej Bel reported the bath spa in his work "Notitia Hungarie novae historico-geographica". The Lucky bath spa and its healing properties have been written about by such authorities of balneology as Dr. Vietoris, who performed the first analysis of the springs in Lucky. The prefect of this manor, Wisner von Morgenstern, ordered the construction of the new building with the large dining room and 17 guest rooms. In the mid-19 century, a new sanatorium was built here. It was following 1948, that Lucky obtained the base of the modern, scientifically based treatment.

Indications of diseases:

Balneology is understood as a complex one and is based on the following components:

• natural medical sources
• kinersy therapy
• supplementary physiotherapy
• supplementary medicamentous cure
• curative nutrition
• climatotherapy and aromatherapy

Locomotive apparatus disorders

Since 2005, the bath cure for the disorders of locomotive apparatus has extended

Conditions of BALENOLOGY

• Coxarthrosis of secondary stage with functional affection, systematic cure
• Arthritis accompanied by functional disorder, systematic cure, arthropathy in metabolic derangement
• Vertebrogenal syndrome with fugitive painful disorders of spine, systematic cure
• Conditions after injury or after surgery of locomotive apparatus within operation of intervertebral disk and operation with the use of articular prosthesis which are accompanied by attenuation of muscular intensity or arthroreisis or paralysis
• scoliosis and arthritis with functional disorder, systematic cure
• anchylose spondyarthritis (Bechter disease) and otherspondyarthritis, systematic cure
• rheumatoid arthritis and its variants, psoriatic arthritis, articular syndrome of Reiter disease with functional affection, systematic cure

In Lucky bath spa resort there is a long tradition in the cure of gynecologic diseases.

The following diseases are cured in Lucky bath spa resort:

• primary and secondary sterility and infertility
• ovarial function disorders
• uterus displasia
• chronic inflammation of vulva
• condition after gynecologic surgery
• conditions after abdomen operations in relation to contracted pelvis
• condition after appendectomy till age of 21
• complications after interruption
• climacteric syndrome

Therapeutic stay in the indication XI. Female diseases takes 21 days.

Applications
Thermal mineral water from the Valentin spring(32 °C) is a decisive factor in the complex bath cure. It is used in basin in its natural form and after warming is also used in all separate baths.
Mineral thermal water in Lucky bath & spa are classified as natural, curative and slightly mineralized, sulphate-bicarbonate, calcium-magnesium, carbonic, hypotonic, and lukewarm waters. According to creating their chemical composition, they are of petrogenous, and carbonate-sulphatogenous character. They have weak calcium-sulphate type of composition. Free CO² content is an important gaseous component, concurrent in the forming of final composition of water.

Although the spa bath cure of locomotive and gynecologic diseases is and must be complex, the centre of cure consist in physiotherapeutic acts based on the use of natural curative sources.

Basin - used for idle cure for 15/20 minutes and hydrokinetic therapy (group exercises and swimming).
Bath cure - is an appropriate form for balneotherapy, including:

Paraffin - local application in the form of hot pack, depending on diagnosis and prescription. Warmed up to 56 ^oC.

Turf - pure with content of organic substance of 85-95 % is used, which is modified by mineral water into dense mash. Such mineral concentrated substance is applied locally in the form of packs on the zone of contracted pelvis in locomotive apparatus diseases.

Massages:
Classic massage

Lymphodrainage - manual and instrumental

 

 

Electrotherapy is a part of physiatrics where the curative effect of various forms of electric energy is used, namely direct current, various impulses, alternating currents of low and midstream frequency, high-frequency field and high-frequency current.
The following forms of electrotherapy is used:

·        diathermy

·        diatron

·        diadynamic currents

·        endomed

·        TENS - tegumentary electric neural stimulator

·        Magnetotherapy

·        Curative ultrasound

·        Phototherapy

·        Biolampsolux

·        Sunlamp

·        Sanotherm

Intrador - CO² gaseous injection, used mostly for its analgesic and spasmlytic effect in the cure of locomotive apparatus.

Therapeutic physical training is an inseparable part of complex cure of locomotive apparatus and gynecological diseases.

Proposal of curative physical trainings (CPT):

·        curative physical exercise, fit-ball

·        medical physical training for incontinence

·        relaxation exercises (yoga)

·        rehabilitation exercise

·        medical physical trainings in sterility

·        individual exercises after operation of breast

·        individual training

 

Additional cure

·        psychorelaxation

·        autotraction

·        inhalation

·        oxygenotherapy

·        vitamonotherpy

All above mentioned diseases have been curing by 32ºC mineral water containing natural carbonic acid gas. The healing process uses tub baths, peat wraps, steam baths and other water therapy procedures, along with massage, and complemented by rehabilitative calisthenics and physical therapy.

Contact:
Liptovske liecebne kupele a.s., 034 82 Lucky
Tel: +421 44 439 28 28, +421 44 437 55 61, Fax: +421 44 430 31 28 – business department,
+421 44 439 23 70 – secretary, E-mail: kupelelucky@stonline.sk, marketllk@stonline.sk, www.luckykupele.sk