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title: "Thermal Mud - Hotel Petrarca"
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url: "https://www.hotelpetrarca.it/en/component/content/article/110-thermal-mud?catid=37"
date: "2026-05-30T15:52:34+00:00"
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## Thermal Mud

#### The mud of Abano and Montegrotto Terme are the result of an astute **mixture** of **clay, salty-bromic-iodic water** and a **biological component.**

To make mud efficient for **curative scopes**, its ripening process in special tanks has to last approximately 50-60 days during which mud is kept in constant contact with a steady flow of thermal water at a temperature of 60°C.

Temperature and chemical components of the Euganean thermal water cause the development of particular strains of microbes that modify the mud's chemical and chemical-physical properties and impart it with the therapeutic properties that make this mud so unique.

Mud treatment is applied externally and involves **4 separate but equally essential phases** to guarantee the session effectiveness:

- **Smearing**: the mud is applied directly to the skin while at a temperature between 38°C and 42°C and it is left in place for 15-20 minutes.
- **Thermal bath:** at the end of the application, the guest takes a hot shower and is then set in a thermal water bath at a temperature of 36°C-38°C for about 8-15 minutes.
- **Sweat reaction:** after drying off with warm towels, the guest returns to his room where he should remain in bed, well-covered for 30-40 minutes during which the sweating reaction continues the biological effects of the mud therapy.
- **Massage** **with a toning action:** the fango-balneotherapy ends with a massage that reactivates the circulation of the skin.

It is essential to follow all the phases to guarantee the efficiency of mud bath therapy.

These mud applications must be **repeated daily for twelve days** with a one day break (different options can be prescribed by the thermal doctor).

Mud therapy is indicated for the **care and prevention** of the following pathologies:

- Articular and extra-articular rheumatism
- Fribrosis or rheumatic origin
- Tendinitis of rheumatic origin
- Lumbago of rheumatic origin
- Fibrositis and fibromyositis
- Osteoporosis and other degenerative processes
- Widespread arthrosis, cervical arthrosis, lumbar arthrosis, arthrosis of the limbs

**Suggested treatment cycle:**

12 mud applications + 12 thermal baths in 12 sessions

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