Our country is a heaven of thermal springs and a source of healing. Many people rush into thermal facilities for the purposes of both having a good vacation and to find a remedy if they have a painful condition or they could not find any solution with regular treatment methods. Physical treatment and rehabilitation physicians even direct patients to thermal facilities when necessary.
However, any patient could not go to thermal facilities. Specifically, for those with high blood pressure or cardiac patients, it is not much suitable since they would be disturbed by high temperature and pressured water. Therefore, patients to have thermal therapies may be required to pass a detailed medical control.


Areas of thermal therapy are as follow:
- For Painful rheumatic patients and osteoarthritis
- For treatment of skin diseases,
- For treatment of kidney and urinary tract diseases,
- For treatment of stress and disorders resulting from stress,
- For treatment of stomach, intestine and gall bladder diseases,
Thermal therapy has many benefits.
Methods to use in hydrotherapy may vary depending upon the area of disease. Water temperature and pressure, bathing time, tools of massaging may differ by the type of disease. When various herbs and minerals are applied together with thermal water, it has been proved that new miracles are added upon the ones water has.

Rheumatic Disorders:
Chronic rheumatic types are among the leading disorders affecting life quality of patients negatively. Thermal water therapy has an important place for decreasing number of complaints caused by this disorder which mostly results in limitation of movement and pain. It is possible to enhance life quality and comfort of patients with chronic rheumatism thanks to thermal water treatment. Relieving pains thanks to baths under the control of physicians may create significant results. Thermal water is used as a complimentary treatment element for chronic low back pains such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, non-inflammatory joint such as osteoarthritis as well as soft tissue diseases such as myositis, tendinitis, trauma, fibromyalgia syndrome.
Orthopaedic Disorders:
For treatment of orthopaedic disorders, thermal water produces significant results. Thermal water therapy has an important place for rehabilitation of joint stiffness following orthopaedic or musculoskeletal operations, sequels after accidents or operations, joint locks and muscle stiffness. Efficient results may be obtained by thermal water for therapies to heal fractures in a shorter period of time, to fix functional disorders followed by a disease, to help movement of stable patients for a long time after brain and nerve surgery operations.
Neurologic Disorders
Relaxing and refreshing effect of water creates positive results in rehabilitation of neurologic disorders such as paralysis of the brain, cerebral palsy (spastic), polio etc. where rehabilitation of vital importance. It is critical to perform applications under the control of experts in their fields in order to make achievements in terms of rehabilitation and treatments. Ensuring appropriate environmental conditions is also among the factors affecting the outcome. Thermal water has benefits for eliminating complaints such as mental exhaustion and intellectual (brain) exhaustion etc.
Skin Diseases
Hyper thermal (at temperature of 40-42ºC) water has facilitating benefits for medical treatment of many skin diseases thanks to its physio-chemical changes resulting from hydrostatic penetration through skin surface, absorption and accumulation in the skin. The most important one among the direct effects of hot spring water on skin surface is that it increases superficial blood circulation. As a result of thermal cure; positive changes in hair structure, bright and healthy looking hair, revitalization in skin appearance have been observed. Thermal water presents a healthier life for anyone young and old alike through slowing down biological cell fatigue and aging rate.
Cerebrovascular Diseases
Curing applications within the scope of “Wellness” can be successfully performed with the integration of various massage and similar applications for rehabilitation of paralysis (stroke) sequels, for treatment of stress and disorders resulting from stress, for general stress disorders such as neurovegetative dystonia in addition to its balneological impacts. Healing results can be obtained for different cases such as hemiplegia (partial paralysis of the body), paraplegia (paralysis of both legs).
Nephrologic Diseases
Thermal water has positive effects over treatment of diseases (nephrologic) related to urinary system including mainly kidneys as well as bladders and urinary tracts. Thermal water helps increasing amount of blood drained from kidneys thanks to its structure containing molecules and particles. This increase positively affects detoxification process. Thermal water helps expelling kidney stones out of the body; treatment of disorders such as intestine diseases, kidney and urinary tract diseases, cystitis etc.
Inflammation
Thermal water has positive impacts over treatment of inflammatory disorders such as inflammation along nerves (neuralgia / sineuralgia), nerve ending inflammation (neuritis /polyneuritis), tendon inflammation (tendinitis), periarthritis etc.
Osteoarthritis, Myogenic Pains and Sciatic
Osteoarthritis, a corrosion disease which leads to pain and movement limitations in joints and then shape disorders, has different types such as arthrosis and spondylitis. Thermal water is the leading efficient method used in osteoarthritis therapy. Additionally, it is effective for decreasing the number of complaints about myogenic pains and sciatic.
Respiratory System Diseases
Thermal water has benefits for treatment of various respiratory system diseases such as asthma (bronchial asthma), chronic bronchitis, allergic upper respiratory infections, pneumonopathies resulting from breathing various dusts or chemical materials for a long time."