CONCLUSION Mud pack therapy is considered an alternative and effective therapy in the clinical management of knee OA .
OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was to systematic ally review all the scientific studies that analyse the effectiveness of mud pack therapy on patients diagnosed with knee OA .
Mud pack therapy in osteoarthrosis. Changes in serum levels of chondrocyte markers.
We have previously shown that thermal mud therapy is able to influence chondrocyte activity of osteoarthrosic patients by modulating the production of serum cytokines , such as interleukin 1 , and this was related to the presence of an anti-inflammatory principle in mature thermal mud . Mud therapy influences many biochemical processes of the body , independently of the thermic stimulation alone and the present paper documents specific increases of insulin growth factor 1 and decreases of tumor necrosis factor alpha in serum of osteoarthrosic patients after 12 days of mud pack application
CONCLUSION Mud pack therapy is considered an alternative and effective therapy in the clinical management of knee OA .
OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was to systematic ally review all the scientific studies that analyse the effectiveness of mud pack therapy on patients diagnosed with knee OA .