Treatment of rheumatic disorders in Slovakia

13-Apr-2011

In April, Health Spa Piešťany and the Slovak Medical and Rheumatology Association organised the 7th Spring Congress, with the main topic of biological therapy of inflammatory rheumatic diseases and ochronosis – a pathological discoloration of the tissue affecting mostly bones. These topics, appropriate to Spa Piešťany as patients with locomotive disorders are treated there, were discussed by more than two hundred doctors from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The speakers lecturing about problems related to motability, pain, vaccination or side effects of treatments included Prof Nick Sireau from Cambridge, the Chairman of a society dealing with ochronosis research, as well as Prof Bjon Pilström, an immunologist from Stockholm, Sweden.

Every year, Prof Jozef Rovenský from the National Research Institute of Rheumatology Disorders, a close co-operator of Spa Piešťany in treatment and research, is the chief mentor of such rheumatology congresses.

Lectures were attended by the spa physicians, whose specialisation in rheumatology, balneology, physiatry and rehabilitation, and whose work with clients suffering from locomotive disorders, requires them to keep up to date with the latest research and treatments.

“We attend the seminars in compliance with the Act on post-graduation education of doctors. Participation, however, is necessary also from professional point of view because the seminar presents new treatments of rheumatic disorders,” commented Pavel Makovník, Chief Physician of Health Spa Piešťany.

This year, a two-day seminar was dedicated to Štefan Siťaj at the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Professor Štefan Siťaj was an internationally acknowledged rheumatologist who, besides numerous scientific publications, contributed to establishment of the Research Institute of Rheumatic Disorders in Piešťany. He was the father of Doctor Oľga Boldišová who has been working in Health Spa Piešťany since 1996.