Treatments & therapies at the Vivea Hotel Bad Bleiberg

Healing massage

Healing massages relieve tension, alleviate pain and promote blood circulation - a real treat for the whole body.

Helps with:
✓ Tension
✓ Degenerative or rheumatic diseases, especially in the neck or lumbar spine area

Not suitable for:
✗ Inflammation of the skin
✗ Acute slipped disc
✗ Open wounds
✗ Lymphoedema

Acupuncture massage according to Penzel

In this method, the meridians - the body's energy channels (according to traditional Chinese medicine, TCM) - are gently stimulated with a metal rod. This is intended to harmonise the flow of energy and support the body's natural balance.

Areas of application:
✓ Relief of pain
✓ Support of organ functions
✓ Complaints of the musculoskeletal system

Connective tissue massage

This special massage technique works deep into the tissue and can have a positive effect on the body's vital functions, such as digestion and metabolism. It loosens adhesions in the connective tissue and can also support internal organs via reflex zones.

Areas of application:
✓ Chronic pain in the spine and joints
✓ Arterial vascular diseases
✓ Circulatory disorders

Not suitable for:
✗ Open wounds
✗ Inflammation
✗ Acute slipped disc
✗ Thrombosis

Foot reflexology massage

This traditional massage technique from the Far Eastern art of healing is based on the idea that certain zones on the foot are connected to organs and muscle groups in the body. Targeted massage of the reflex zones stimulates the entire organism and promotes well-being.

Areas of application:
✓ Relief of acute and chronic pain
✓ Holistic support of the body through a reflex effect

Not suitable for:
✗ Inflammation of the foot
✗ Open wounds
 

Hydrojet massage

Hydrojet massage is a dry, oil-free massage technique that is performed on a heated waterbed. Gentle jets of water massage specific areas of the body, promoting relaxation and regeneration.

Areas of application:
✓ Relieves tension and muscle cramps
✓ Stimulates the metabolism
✓ Promotes blood circulation

Lymphatic drainage

This gentle massage stimulates the lymph flow and helps the body to reduce swelling and tension in a natural way. Special massage techniques stimulate the metabolism and increase well-being.

Areas of application:
✓ Relief of swelling (acute & chronic)
✓ Relaxation of the lymphatic system
✓ Improvement of blood circulation
✓ Support of healing after joint or breast surgery

Not suitable for:
✗ Thrombosis
✗ Pulmonary embolism
✗ Osteoporosis
✗ Acute slipped disc

Lung tapping massage

This massage stimulates blood circulation in the chest and lungs and promotes better breathing awareness. It helps to open the airways and increase well-being.

Area of application:
✓ Support for chronic bronchitis

Segment massage

Segmental massage utilises the interaction between the skin and the internal organs. Special grips influence all parts of a segment (spinal cord section) - i.e. skin, muscles, nerves and internal organs. The segment massage has a pain-relieving effect. Blood circulation and functions are regulated via the connection between the skin, muscles and internal organs.

Areas of application:
✓ Diseases of the digestive tract (incl. stomach, liver, gall bladder)
✓ Diseases of the urogenital tract
✓ For bronchial asthma and other bronchial diseases
✓ Circulatory disorders

Not suitable for:
✗ Inflammations
✗ Open wounds
✗ Acute slipped disc
✗ Lymphoedema

Detox foot bath

This foot bath reactivates the spirits. Vitality returns and energy levels are restored. This foot bath is a highly effective way to get rid of excess acidity.

Acts:
✓ detoxifying
✓ deacidifying

Helps with:
✓ detoxification

Healing salt

Acts:
✓ cleansing
✓ provides the skin with valuable minerals

Helps with:
✓ improving the appearance of the skin
✓ colds
✓ poor concentration
✓ sleep disorders

Not suitable for:
✗ Pregnancy
✗ Very sensitive skin

Spruce needles

Acts:
✓ loosening
✓ revitalising
✓ antispasmodic

Helps with:
✓ Colds
✓ Circulatory disorders
✓ Sensitivity to frost

Hay flowers

Acts:
✓ revitalising
✓ relaxing
✓ stimulates blood circulation

Helps with:
✓ cramps
✓ rheumatic complaints
✓ flatulence

Lemon balm

Has the following effects:
✓ Calming

Helps with:
✓ Nervousness
✓ Restlessness
✓ Difficulty sleeping through the night

Rosemary

Has the following effects:
✓ revitalising

Helps with:
✓ low blood pressure
✓ sensitivity to frost
✓ poor circulation

Mud bath

Acts:
✓ detoxifying
✓ pain-relieving
✓ promotes mobility

Helps with:
✓ Chronic inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system
✓ Therapy of sports injuries

Eucalyptus

Acts:
✓ warming
✓ loosening

Helps with:
✓ Colds
✓ Circulatory disorders
✓ Sensitivity to frost

Lavender

Acts:
✓ calming
✓ flatulent
✓ stimulates blood circulation

Helps with:
✓ Stress
✓ Restlessness
✓ Nervousness
✓ Anxiety
✓ Sleep disorders

Nutritional counselling

A conscious approach to diet, exercise and lifestyle contributes significantly to your well-being.

Our team of dieticians will support you in achieving your individual health goals - be it through sound information on nutritional myths, the right choice of food or customised recommendations taking into account your personal needs, preferences and possible nutrition-related illnesses.

Creation of individualised meal plan

Everyone has different health needs and personal goals - be it weight loss, muscle building or simply a balanced diet.

When creating your personalised meal plan, we take into account:
✓ Your personal taste
✓ Allergies & intolerances
✓ Diet-related illnesses
✓ The optimum calorie intake for your goal (losing weight, building muscle, definition, maintaining weight)
✓ Your physical activity

How to get a diet that suits you perfectly!

Hay flower pack

Acts:
✓ relaxing
✓ detoxifying

Helps with:
✓ Disorders of the autonomic nervous system and during recovery

Not suitable for:
✗ Pollen allergy
✗ Inflammation

Cold moor pack

Acts:
✓ anti-inflammatory
✓ pain-relieving

Helps with:
✓ bruises
✓ irritated veins
✓ varicose veins
✓ gout
✓ acute joint pain

Not suitable for:
✗ arterial occlusive diseases
✗ open wounds

Kneading mud

Has the following effects:
✓ antispasmodic
✓ stimulates blood circulation

Helps with:
✓ degenerative joint diseases
✓ chronic polyarthritis

Natural mud

Acts:
✓ calming
✓ pain-relieving
✓ cleansing
✓ anti-inflammatory
✓ stimulates blood circulation

Helps with:
✓ Improving the appearance of the skin
✓ Improving mobility
✓ Promoting relaxation and detoxification processes 
✓ Inhibiting inflammation
✓ Strengthening the immune system

Not suitable for:
✗ Cardiovascular weakness
✗ Blood pressure disorder

Moor wrap (cool)

Works:
✓ pain-relieving

Helps with:
✓ varicose veins
✓ gout
✓ acute joint pain

Not suitable for:
✗ Colds
✗ Runny nose
✗ Skin rash
✗ Open legs
✗ Chronic rheumatism and joint pain
✗ Sciatica
✗ Allergies

Curd cheese wrap

Has the following effects:
✓ Anti-inflammatory
✓ Pain-relieving

Helps with:
✓ Varicose veins
✓ Gout
✓ Acute joint pain
✓ Post-treatment of superficial phlebitis

Not suitable for:
✗ Colds
✗ Runny nose
✗ Skin rash
✗ Open legs
✗ Chronic rheumatism and joint pain
✗ Sciatica 
✗ Allergies

Respiratory gymnastics

Targeted exercises strengthen the respiratory muscles, which improves oxygen uptake and lung function. Competitive athletes use respiratory gymnastics to improve their performance, but it also helps to promote concentration and achieve deep relaxation in everyday life.

Helpful for:
✓ Respiratory and lung diseases

Not suitable for:
✗ Acute pain or serious illnesses

Individual gymnastics / remedial gymnastics / medical equipment gymnastics

An individually tailored exercise programme helps to achieve personal health goals and alleviate specific complaints.

Helpful for:
✓ Injury or illness-related complaints
✓ Restrictions of the musculoskeletal system

Not suitable for:
✗ Acute illnesses or severe pain

Group gymnastics

Active together for more mobility. Targeted exercises help to alleviate discomfort and improve mobility.

Helpful for:
✓ Shoulder and hip complaints that do not require individual therapy
✓ Spinal complaints
✓ Postural problems & osteoporosis

Not suitable for:
✗ Acute pain or illnesses

Underwater gymnastics

The natural buoyancy of the water relieves pressure on joints, muscles and ligaments, while targeted exercises promote mobility.

Helpful for:
✓ Spinal and joint problems
✓ Osteoporosis
✓ Parkinson's disease

Not suitable for:
✗ Inflammation, open wounds or acute illnesses

Stimulation current therapy

This therapy uses gentle electrical impulses to specifically stimulate muscles and nerves. It can help to relieve pain, promote blood circulation and support regeneration.

Areas of application:
✓ Relief of chronic and rheumatic complaints
✓ Support for tendonitis
✓ Help with torn muscle fibres

Not suitable for:
✗ Metal implants or copper IUDs
✗ Acute inflammation or bleeding
✗ During menstruation or pregnancy
✗ Thrombosis
✗ Malignant tumours
✗ Arterial circulatory disorders

Exponential current

This special low-frequency stimulation current therapy helps to maintain the muscles and counteract muscle atrophy. It is used when nerve connections to the muscles are interrupted but healing is possible.

Area of application:
✓ Supporting muscle activity with interrupted nerve connections with the prospect of regeneration

Not suitable for:
✗ People with pacemakers or metal implants

Iontophoresis

This medical procedure uses gentle electrical impulses to introduce certain active ingredients directly into the body via the skin. In this way, complaints can be treated in a targeted manner.

Areas of application:
✓ Relief of chronic pain
✓ Support for osteoarthritis

Not suitable for:
✗ Wearers of metal implants

Galvanisation

In this therapy, a gentle direct current flows through the affected areas of the body. It promotes blood circulation, relaxes the muscles and relieves pain.

Areas of application:
✓ Support for paralysis
✓ Pain relief
✓ Treatment of degenerative joint inflammation

Not suitable for:
✗ People with pacemakers or metal implants
✗ Open wounds
✗ Acute inflammation

Ultrasound therapy

This therapy uses gentle sound waves to create a pleasant warming effect deep in the tissue. This improves blood circulation, stimulates the metabolism and supports the healing of scar tissue.

Areas of application:
✓ Osteoarthritis and spondylarthrosis (degenerative spinal diseases)
✓ Ankylosing spondylitis
✓ Nerve pain
✓ Scar treatment
✓ Improving joint mobility

Not suitable for:
✗ Endoprostheses (artificial joints)
✗ Tumour diseases
✗ Varicose veins
✗ Thrombosis
✗ Pregnancy

Swell current therapy

This therapy uses targeted electrical impulses to strengthen the muscles. It is used when the nerve supply is intact and muscle atrophy needs to be counteracted.

Areas of application:
✓ Support for muscle atrophy
✓ Treatment of scoliosis (spinal misalignment)
✓ Spondylolisthesis
✓ Bladder dysfunction
✓ Osteoporosis (bone atrophy)

Not suitable for:
✗ People with paralysis

Whole-body cryotherapy | -110 °C

The cold has a positive effect on pain memory and increases the tolerance of pain receptors. Inflammatory processes are inhibited in the whole-body cold chamber, which improves mobility. This in turn drastically reduces the consumption of painkillers and improves quality of life.

Regeneration - The heart rate is reduced, endurance and performance increase and the muscles are better supplied with blood.

Vitality - Our well-being reacts to thermal stimuli. Whole-body cryotherapy conveys a feeling of freshness and alertness.

Therapies in the whole-body cold chamber are suitable for alleviating
✓ musculoskeletal pain
✓ inhibiting inflammation
✓ reducing swelling
✓ relieving chronic headaches
✓ strengthening the immune system

as well as for
✓ fibromyalgia
✓ bronchial asthma
✓ sleep disorders
✓ fatigue and depressed mood

and
✓ to improve the appearance of the skin
✓ to improve physical performance
✓ for faster regeneration after competitive sport


When should cold therapy not be used?
✗ if people react very sensitively to cold
✗ in the case of cold allergies
✗ in the case of acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases
✗ in the case of high blood pressure
✗ in the case of arterial circulatory disorders
✗ in the case of epilepsy and polyneuropathy
✗ after a stroke

Carbovasal

This method specifically utilises the healing properties of natural CO₂ to promote blood circulation and support regenerative processes in the body.

Effect:
✓ Promotes blood circulation

Areas of application:
✓ Support for circulatory disorders
✓ Promote wound healing
✓ Help with cold hands and feet

Not suitable for:
✗ acute phlebitis
 

Kneipp therapy

Kneipp therapy has proven to be an effective remedy for over a century. It fulfils the requirements of modern health care, strengthens the immune system, helps with stress and excessive demands.

Acts:
✓ decongests
✓ promotes blood circulation
✓ stimulates arterial circulation and strengthens the veins
✓ promotes sleep in the evening
✓ activates the circulation and metabolism

Helps with:
✓ Strengthens the body's defences
✓ Migraine
✓ Acute inflammation or swelling (cold stimulus)
✓ Chronic illnesses and supply deficits in vessels (heat stimulus)
✓ Circulatory disorders

Not recommended for:
✗ Signs of a cold
 

Physiotherapy

Various stimuli are used - movement, pressure, traction, heat, cold or electricity, which activate the body's self-healing powers to varying degrees.

This enables the physiotherapist to:
✓ influence physiological processes
✓ alleviate pain
✓ correct poor posture
✓ balance the ratio of muscle strength
✓ give specific advice on which exercises will increase the success of the therapy

Helps with:
✓ Back and disc problems
✓ Signs of wear and tear on the joints
✓ Various injuries (e.g. after sport or an accident)
✓ Rheumatic diseases
✓ Migraines and headaches
✓ Tension caused by constant strain
✓ Impairment of the musculoskeletal system

Red light therapy

A red light lamp emits visible light - it appears red to us - and infrared rays that are invisible to the human eye. They penetrate the tissue and increase the temperature there. The body reacts to this and dilates its blood vessels, increasing blood circulation.

Helps with:
✓ Joint pain and wear and tear (osteoarthritis)
✓ Ear, nose and throat disorders
✓ Soft tissue rheumatism
✓ Fibromyalgia
✓ Muscle pain
✓ Muscle hardness
✓ Rheumatic joint disorders
✓ Spinal complaints
✓ Improving the appearance of the skin

Not recommended for:
✗ acute rheumatoid arthritis
✗ severe diseases of the cardiovascular system
✗ diabetes mellitus
✗ hyperthyroidism
✗ hypofunction of the adrenal cortex

Gamma swing

The principle of GammaSwing is based on the effect of stretching treatment.

Has the following effects:
✓ relaxes
✓ relieves pain
✓ improves mobility

Helps with:
✓ tense back muscles
✓ the release of blockages in the vertebral joints
✓ the promotion of intervertebral disc health

Not recommended for:
✗ sciatica
✗ lumbago
✗ immediately after disc surgery

Brine

The water vapour and brine have an expectorant effect.

Helps with:
✓ Bronchitis
✓ Sinusitis
✓ Runny nose
✓ Asthma

Contraindication:
✗ acute asthma attack

Healing climate tunnel

Allergy and asthma patients praise the positive effect of our healing climate tunnel therapy. This is due to the constant temperature of 8 °C, the high humidity and the fact that the air in the tunnel is free of dust and allergens.

Helps with:
✓ Inflammatory changes to mucous membranes
✓ Allergies
✓ Asthma
✓ Inner restlessness

Medication

The type of medication and the inhalation technique determine whether inhalation of medication is possible.

Helps with:
✓ Diseases of the respiratory tract

Not recommended for:
✗ Cough
✗ Allergies

Tsunamed / vital field analysis

The TsunaMED vital field analysis is a biophysical measurement method that records the energetic state of the body's cells.

Two electrodes are attached to the feet and 200 million current pulses are sent into the body. The cells or the organ each give a specific response to these impulses. These responses are compared with the data fed in.

During diagnosis and counselling, particular attention is paid to the functional tissue response.

TsunaMED vital field analysis provides indications of

✓ weak points/blockages/interference fields
✓ changes in the energy balance
✓ the regulatory capacity and stress caused by external influences (e.g. toxins, hormones, medication, metals, etc.).

Spirometry

This analysis instrument is used to measure various components of lung function.

Electrocardiogram (ECG)

It is possible to carry out an ECG if necessary (e.g. in the event of heart problems).

BIA measurement

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) determines the composition of the body. Data on total body water, fat-free mass (e.g. connective tissue, skin, organs, skeletal muscles) and body fat (stored fat) are shown.

The individual parameters and their relationship to each other provide information about changes, e.g. after a change in diet.

Body Composition

Body Composition Analysis provides a precise measurement of body composition, including muscle mass, fat percentage and total weight. Of particular importance is the measurement of visceral adipose tissue - the fat that surrounds the internal organs, especially the digestive system.

An increased value can favour the risk of diabetes mellitus, stroke and heart attack.

The analysis also provides information on how muscle mass is distributed in the body and provides valuable information for targeted health and training planning.