Need to end the back pain that ruin your daily life? Food, sports, wraps or cryotherapy ... Many methods today allow to get rid of.

  • The benefits of light therapy in Pornic

Head to the spa of Pornic, where the cure Luminescence Therapy revitalizes the body through the benefits of light.

"The MiltaLed, the flagship of our new cure, combines visible light spectrum, infrared and low-intensity magnetic fields.The device consists of two modules: a panel with anti-inflammatory effect positioned on the areas of the body suffering and a helmet that acts on the neurotransmitters essential for the treatment of stress, "explains Marie-Noëlle Veillet-Berry, Executive Director.

Another high-tech tool of the cure, the OligoScan used by the dietician during the consultation. By spectrophotometry of four points of the palmar surface of the hand, this small box makes it possible to evaluate deficiencies and excesses in minerals, presence of heavy metals and acid-base balance.

Valuable clues to consider dietary changes, which can start here with the bio-detox or bio-ayurvedic menus. The program also includes the infrared sauna, whose thermal radiation penetrates the tissues.

Sitting back against a reflector, tense muscles, freed of their toxins, soften. These treatments act in synergy with remineralizing and relaxing marine rituals such as hydromassage baths and seaweed wraps.

Natural oxygenation of the cells by inhalation based on pine resin and yoga session also enhance the benefits of light therapy and increase the vitality of the body.

Cure Luminescence Therapy from 1300 € per person for 4 days in double room and ½ pension. Exist in cure of 6 days. Alliance Pornic Resort Hotel Thalasso & Spa, tel. 02 40 82 91 73 and www.thalassopornic.com

  • The virtues of bicarbonated water in Vichy

Anxious to relieve the evil of the century that touches us all, or almost, the Vichy Celestins Spa Hotel offers a cure Back and Joints that surf on the benefits of its water sip of minerals (3225mg / l) and sodium bicarbonate (2989 mg / l). Do not confuse with sodium chloride, in other words salt.

"Our Vichy method is based on 5 keys: medical consultation to personalize the care, dietary consultation to avoid anti-inflammatory foods and discover the alkanizing action of water, spa water treatment, expert care and sports coaching" says Aline Pelage, spa manager.

Every day, the trilogy of signature spa water treatments includes a hydromassage bath with chromotherapy, a vegetal-mineral mud wrap with analgesic effect, and an affusion massage in which the water is enriched with a moisturizing grapeseed oil.

Expert care varies from day to day: sophrology workshop, a dynamic relaxation to learn to breathe and work the position of the body through visualization; osteopathy session, musculoskeletal manipulations to restore imbalances detected; therapeutic massage performed by a physiotherapist to relieve tension or 3 minutes of cryotherapy.

Finally a sports coach helps correct bad postures and improve muscle tone. This set of protocols helps to erase its contractures durably.

Cure Back and Joints from 390 € per day and per person half board (289 € without accommodation or catering). Vichy Célestins Spa Hotel, tel. 04 70 30 82 82 and www.vichy-spa-hotel.fr

  • The beneficial action of fango in Abano

To say stop to muscular, lumbar or cervical pain often related to stress, direction Abano, 50km east of Venice.

Integrated in the hotel The Residence, the center Idrokinesis, especially specialized in the recovery of athletes, has created a program for the back which reduces to nothing the contractures thanks to fango (mud in Italian).

"Ally No. 1 of our cures, the clay, drawn from the neighboring hills and ripened in a very hot water rich in minerals, develops remarkable anti-inflammatory properties," says Dr. Maurizio Grassetto, director of the group's Thermal Spas. GB Thermae Hotels.

Each day begins with a mud therapy: hot mud wrap on areas defined by the doctor, invigorating thermal shower and scented thermal bath. This muscle relaxant ritual reduces osteoarticular and muscular inflammation and regenerates tissues.

During a second consultation, the doctor ultrasonically evaluates the bone mass, then determines, using a computerized stabilometric platform, the normality of the posture, the balance and detects any secondary disorders related to cervical trauma.

Hydrokinesitherapy sessions in thermal water to relieve stiffness and looseness of the joints, individual postural reeducation to learn how to coordinate breathing and movement, and Deep Tissue Method massages concentrated on the deep muscles complete this course.

Results: the musculature relaxes, the flexibility improves, the tensions fly away.

Idrokinésis program for the back from 2023 € for 6 nights full board. Hotel Residence and center Idrokinesis tel 39 049 8247777 and www.hotelresidenceabano.it