Speleotherapy News
This is an in-depth report on the composition of the breathable air, inside the Wieliczka Salt Mines chambers. It describes the sophistication of the ventilation systems for ‘air turnover’, and the optimum amount of people permitted within the tourist & therapy centre chambers, so that the healthfulness of the salt air can be optimally retained, without fungal spores nor other contaminants ever establishing themselves within the Salt Mines.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10453-019-09561-7
Wieliczka Salt Mines Therapy Suites welcomes its first Long Covid patients, for light physical exercise & salt air breathing exercises. A short report with quotes from a scientist, and one of the Salt Mines directors.
The Reuters about Poles going underground for treatment:
The Sunday Times same as The Reuters
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-polish-saltmine-workout-to-shake-off-long-covid-6zmhnz8jf
A report by 8 authors, on the improvements in aerobic exercise ability & tolerability, amongst a test group of elderly patients, who underwent a light fitness program of dance exercises, breathing therapy sessions, and moderate other exercises...and the success of the program to improve the lives of this test-groups of older people. Tests conducted in pre-Covid times in 2018, and a report published mid 2020.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1753466620926952
A group of Long Covid patients, and their therapists, describe the measurable success of the exercise & breathing therapies inside the Wieliczka Salt Mines Therapy Suites, thus far. This article augurs well for the formidable power of positive thinking & natural salt-air to help people recuperate from Long Covid.
National Geographic magazine, in praise of Poland’s Salt-Mines health resorts in Wieliczka & Bochnia. This international recognition of complementary therapies by a prestigious magazine, and truly global brands, National Geographic & UNESCO Information editors, should give all medical doctors food for thought, that not all recuperative therapies come in the form of a pill! Breathing natural salt air, while enjoying exercises at a patient’s own pace, has its own health-bestowing properties, too.
https://visitworldheritage.com/en/eu/underground-health-resorts/0964f26e-1f17-48ee-9866-2efb8fa1cd24
Financial Times: Long Covid - why do some people have symptoms months after infection?
The mystery of how long Covid damages our memory
Who might need treatment? Study from Scotland:
The article about… probiotics nutrition, for Long Covid experiencers. Published in mid-2021 by polish researchers from University of Silesia.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1slY3iBL-YIVjdOxJlJ_Qs7FbACUOMQjb/view?usp=sharing
This extremely in-depth appraisal of post-Covid persistent viral illnesses will reward the reader who stays the course, to really learn what is happening across this world. Covid sequelae illnesses are so multi-faceted, and, in some cases, intertwined with previously-contracted dormant viral illness within a patient-sufferer. This meta-report draws upon many reports from doctors & medical academics from all over the world.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.698169/full