The world-famous Pamukkale Thermal Baths thermal centre is located on a plateau and has its own mineral pool with water temperatures ranging from +30°C to +45°C. This unique complex of thermal springs is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is located on the edge of the ancient volcanic plateau of Küçük-Cekelez, which rises about a hundred metres above the valley. Numerous thermal streams with water saturated with calcium bicarbonates run down the slopes in dozens of streams and form unusually beautiful travertine terraces due to the deposition of salts. Now it is forbidden to walk on the terraces and only certain areas are allocated for visiting, but at the foot of the plateau you can bathe in Cleopatra's healing baths.
Most of the local hotels have on their territory mud and mineral springs, which are a great success. Highly qualified specialists select the necessary chemical composition of mineral water for each client. Bathing in the hydrothermal springs of Pamukkale helps with such serious ailments as arterial hypertension, paralysis, rheumatism and other diseases of the musculoskeletal apparatus. Mineral limestone waters have a rather effective therapeutic effect on people suffering from various disorders of the nervous system and subject to chronic stress. The benefits of local thermal waters are invaluable for people with skin and muscular diseases. Taking mineral water from the spring inside improves the condition of people with gastrointestinal diseases. Pamukkale muds allow to reduce weight, cleanse the organism from toxins, help in the treatment of joint pathologies, have a good tonic, tonic, tonic and cosmetic effect. The course of treatment in the Pamukkale Thermal Complex usually lasts from one to three weeks.
Besides the therapeutic properties of the local mineral water is very appreciated and its rejuvenating properties. After bathing in the small waterfalls of the complex, the skin becomes surprisingly soft and smooth. It is very well cleansed by the pleasant massage and healing effect of the water. The thermal complex offers the following therapies, which are supervised by specialists:
- balneotherapy - a treatment based on the combined effect of a number of procedures such as isothermal and hyperthermic baths, mud applications, bandages and compresses;
- physiotherapy - individual or group exercise sessions in the thermal pool; procedures that relieve physical muscle tension, improve blood circulation in tissues and vessels, and promote the removal of toxins from the body;
- mud therapy - mud baths enriched with iron, selenium, magnesium, sodium, manganese and other minerals. Therapeutic mud is applied to different parts of the body.
- shower-jet - massage with thermal water applied from a certain distance to different parts of the body;
- thalassotherapy - a modern method using for therapeutic purposes sea water, climate and products of marine origin - algae and mud. In these procedures, the human body receives missing valuable trace elements such as iodine, sulphur, potassium and calcium. During twenty minutes spent in a mud and sea bath, the skin absorbs the maximum of useful substances. Thalassotherapy is used when the body needs to recover from stress. In addition, it is used in the treatment of severe neurological disorders, intestinal, skin and gynaecological diseases;
- weight loss programme - wrapping, peeling, balneology, general body massage, Charcot shower, thermal wrapping, Jacuzzi, sauna, thermal pools and sports exercises.
All therapeutic programmes are based on the use of procedures with natural substances: algae, mineral water from thermal springs, therapeutic muds, aromatic baths, special diets.
