Questions and Answers
- What can the radon therapy achieve?
- Is radon dangerous?
- What is the difference between the healing cave, the thermal water and the vapour bath?
- How will I know which form of therapy I should choose?
- Does my health insurance cover the costs?
- What can I expect from the Gastein cure?
- When must I not apply the Gastein cure?
- Must I bring medical reports with me from my own doctor?
What can the radon therapy achieve?
The radon therapy, as it is applied in Gastein, inhibits inflammation and pain, respectively, removes pain, eases or removes allergies, alleviates neuralgia, alleviates excess scaling of the skin, kindles the cell-repair mechanism, stimulates certain hormones (thyroid gland, oestrogen in women, testosterones in men), stimulates the pleasure-messenger substance/pleasure hormones in the brain.
Is radon dangerous?
Only when one has a high concentration at home during many hours at work, and above all when one is a smoker.
What is the difference between the healing cave, the thermal water and the vapour bath?
The degree of effect is the difference. The possibility to take it in through the lungs and the skin together makes the Gastein healing cave cure one of the most effective therapies, then comes the bath, and the less severe application is the vapour bath.
How will I know which form of therapy I should choose?
The severer the pain, the stronger the therapy. Intensive therapy is above all useful to counteract inflammatory rheumatic illnesses.
Does my health insurance cover the costs?
The cure in Gastein is acknowledged by the Austrian and German health-insurance systems. Direct clearance contracts exist with many of them. You will find information for a cure under your social insurance under cure invoicing.
What can I expect from a Gastein cure?
Long-lasting pain- and ailment alleviation, the saving of already necessary medicaments and an increase of one’s individual quality of life are the aims of the therapeutic measures in Gastein.
Thousands of guests come to this valley each year to profit in this way from the local cures and therapeutic competence.
Most return home satisfied and come regularly again.
When must I not apply the Gastein cure?
During pregnancy, with hyperthyrosis, and malignant patients should not come for one year following completed chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.
One should fundamentally not exclude children and youths from a radon treatment. In individual cases the risk of a medicinal treatment contrary to weak radiation therapy should be considered.
Must I bring medical reports with me from my own doctor?
It is recommended to bring existing reports, especially from the last 6 to 12 months before taking a cure.