The Practice of studying the Biochemical Mechanisms of Balneotherapy (sulfuric waters) Effectiveness in the World and Georgia as a Basis for the Development of Evidence-based Rhabilitation Medicine

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Relevance of the issue – In conditions of growing technological and pharmacological progress in modern medicine, the expansion of evidence-based knowledge and the introduction of standardized approaches, conventional medicine has increasingly taken its place and narrowed the role of complementary medicine. Accordingly, the role of physical medicine, physio-, balneo-, aqua-, peloidotherapies, which were quite popular in the last century, has declined by the beginning of the 21st century and, to some extent, has even become the subject of denigration by scientists. Their use became increasingly associated with the spa-wellness direction and gradually lost its medicinal value and acquired an aesthetic and health-improving role. The reason for this phenomenon was the paucity of evidence. However, neither earlier nor later studies denied the healing effect of complementary medicine, especially balneotherapy, they simply did not confirm their superior results. Why learning of therapeutic efficiency of apart physical and traditional medicine methods are chosen to analyze the comparative effects of classical treatment methods is a separate question. However, studies that confirm that complementary medicine methods, along with classical ones, achieve much faster and better results than when treating with classical methods alone, are really scarce, and funding is also less!