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  • Vascular Medicine
  • Physical Therapy
  • Hydrotherapy

Background:

  • Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a common, progressive condition affecting lower limb veins, leading to symptoms like edema, pain, and skin changes.
  • CVI results from valvular incompetence, reflux, or obstruction, causing venous hypertension and significant healthcare costs.
  • Balneotherapy offers a potentially cost-effective physiotherapy approach for CVI management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of balneotherapy in treating patients with chronic venous insufficiency.
  • To update previous reviews on balneotherapy for CVI.

Main Methods:

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.
  • Searched Cochrane databases using standard methods, with the latest search on June 28, 2022.
  • Included nine trials (1126 participants) comparing balneotherapy to no treatment, phlebotonic drugs, or dryland exercises.

Main Results:

  • Balneotherapy likely offers slight improvements in CVI disease severity scores (moderate-certainty evidence) and pain (low-certainty evidence) compared to no treatment.
  • Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) improvements are uncertain (very low to low-certainty evidence) at various time points.
  • Little to no difference was observed in adverse effects, edema, or leg ulcer incidence; limited evidence exists for comparisons with other treatments.

Conclusions:

  • Balneotherapy demonstrates moderate-certainty evidence for slight improvement in CVI disease severity and low-certainty evidence for pain and skin pigmentation.
  • Evidence for HRQoL benefits is very low to low-certainty, and balneotherapy shows little impact on adverse effects, edema, or ulcer incidence versus no treatment.
  • Further high-quality trials are needed with standardized outcome measurements and follow-up points for robust comparisons.