Author: Yohandra Gomez Amaro Photo: Cuban Medical Service Chapter . Published in Health.
Cienfuegos, September 25 (ACN Newswire) – The Yaguanabo Center for Health and Quality of Life in the province of Cienfuegos promotes thalassotherapy, a therapeutic method based on health tourism that uses the chemical elements of the marine environment.
The facility, which belongs to the regional branch of the Cuban Medical Services Marketing Corporation (CSMC), is located on the route to Trinidad’s heritage city and uses the Cienfuegos coast to have a positive impact on mental health and promote physical activity.
Dr. Roberto Ángel Polo Amarante, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, told the Cuban News Agency that Yaguanabo’s coastal climate combines with its mountainous climate, which is why people experience psychological and physical benefits when using sea sand. Relieves circulatory processes and pain.
He explained that in the case of waves, they have a hydromassage effect on the joints, and when they perform physical exercises outdoors, in addition to hydrotherapy, they use marine aerosols to teach patients to breathe, and hydrotherapy helps with the mechanical effect on the chest area Recovering from bronchitis and sequelae caused by COVID-19.
Likewise, he noted that they offer medicinal mud massages, in this case using ingredients such as seaweed, whose properties affect the quality of the skin.
Polo Amarante stressed that thalassotherapy is a very comprehensive treatment that improves both sick and healthy patients, which is why it is a product in high demand, especially from countries such as Argentina.
Isis Leyva Bettencourt, director of the Cuban Medical Service in the province, noted that the center in Yaguanabo offers the possibility of developing the resources of the central and southern waters and contributes to making the city of Cienfuegos more attractive. Got the chance. To achieve the purpose of staying and traveling.
The agency offers other services designed to meet the individual needs of its clients, including physical medicine and rehabilitation, podiatry, consultation and treatment with natural and traditional medicine procedures (acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, moxibustion), anti-stress therapy in the bank . Caribbean and nutritional counseling for a healthy balanced diet.
Among the upcoming projects of the CSMC branch in the region, dolphin therapy stands out, offering air therapy through a chain of dolphinariums in Cienfuegos and a trail in El Nico, starting from the connection with Palmares , partial body massage and hip reflexology additional hotel company.