[Therapy-monitoring control of subjective feelings in rheumatic patients]

A significant psychological aspect of rheumatic disease is the subjective emotional feeling in general and the pain stress in particular. The question as to what extent therapeutic measures are able to ease psychic stress was best to be answered by means of continuous observation. In this work, a study of 19 rheumatic patients during a treatment at a spa is presented. Moreover, this demonstrates the possibility of validating the physician's concluding opinion on the basis of the patient's subjective emotional self-judgement during the process of treatment.