People suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee could benefit from applications of mud to relieve their pains. In Turkey, where one practices the applications of mud traditionally heated to about 43 ° C, some researchers wanted to know if the observed therapeutic effects were attributable to the heat or to the mud herself.
They led a test clinique1 by 60 patients suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee. Thirty of the topics received, on one period of three weeks, 15 applications of mud directly on the two knees, during 30 minutes every time. The other half had the right to the same applications, but the mud was enveloped of impervious nylon. She / it was therefore not in direct contact with skin, therefore, only the heat was transmitted to the treated joint.
According to the results, the patients of the two groups returned, at the end of the 15 sessions of treatment, a relief of their pains and a reduction of their consumption of analgesics.
During the 24 weeks that followed the treatment, the relief of the pain was on the other hand more important and the consumption of analgesics was least among the subjects of the first group in comparison of the topics of the second group. On the whole, the size of the clinical improvements of the symptoms of the osteoarthritis was superior to the topics for that one had applied the mud directly on skin.
The researchers conclude that the observed some therapeutic effects are in part attributable to the heat of the mud, but also to the biochemical components that she / it contains. The mud used in this test was the type "Torfs", that means poor in a mud rich in clay and decomposed plant matters.
The researchers believe that the substances as sulfur the glycolipids (acidic fulvic, Gallic, ulmique, Vanil, protocatéchique etc.) That contains this type of mud could have beneficial effects on the muscular fiber smooth.
To Quebec, one finds muds of this type in the big-peat bogs situated to the north of the province.
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