Thirteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

The spectrum of pathological conditions related to Neuro-Myo-Arthro-Kinetic (NMAK) apparatus includes arthroses, arthritis, spondylitis, traumatic injuries, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, muscle tone dysfunction, and joint mobility – spasticity; peripheral nervous system pathology: discogenic and/or vertebrogenic radiculopathies, poly-radiculoneuritis, limb amputations, post-COVID-19, peripheral nerves or central nervous system sequelae, neurogenic heterotopic ossifications, traumatic musculoskeletal pathology, including degenerative diseases, fractures, endoprostheses for osteoarthritis especially on hip joints, disabling knees, contusions, muscle contractions/retractions, algoneurodystrophies, pressure sores, eschars or burns. Natural therapeutic factors such as mud and sulfurous mineral therapeutic waters are used in sanatoriums and rehabilitation clinics as baths or topical applications on the body for many affections in the Neuro-Myo-Arthro-Kinetic (NMAK) pathology. Topical applications effects of natural factors on healthy and pathological tissues could be explored by electromyography (EMG), pulse-oximetry, biological investigations, using various blood and biochemical parameters, or through indirect clinical methods, using various scales, in a medical evaluation activity, as for pain (VAS-Visual Analog Scale), for motion capacity (Range of Motion), or the improving of performing daily living activities. In contrast to current approaches that take into account only discrete biological parameters, such as hematological or biochemistry laboratory parameters, invasive electromyography, or clinical scales as measuring instruments, using combined data of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) tools with biological investigations for evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of natural therapeutic factors, like mud or natural sulfurous mineral waters, in the field of NMAK pathology, we are exploiting both spatial and spectral correlation and intimate biological information for a better understanding of the effects of natural therapeutic factors.