Hardly has an understanding of the term wellness taken hold when new ones appear — medical wellness, for instance. While wellness is understood above all as whirlpool, sauna and luxurious ambience, medical wellness often causes misunderstandings. What is meant is health-oriented wellness under medical supervision: not a mere pampering holiday but a preventive, behavioural-medicine approach.
Medical wellness — definition — what is the goal?
The term wellness was coined in the 1950s by the American physician Halbert Dunn — as the vision of an active, self-responsible health prevention. Medical wellness thinks this idea through consistently: instead of doing something good for yourself only for the moment, it is about a lasting change of behaviour and attitude to life, towards a healthier lifestyle that carries beyond the stay in the hotel. What is special is the medical supervision — with diagnostics, individual counselling and the express aim of anchoring the changes in everyday life at home.
Who are these treatments for?
The answer is clear: for everyone who wants to change their way of life sustainably. One example is the Ayurveda concept, in which nutrition, movement and rituals such as yoga come together under expert guidance. People with elevated risk factors or chronic complaints too — rheumatism, back problems or the wish to stop smoking, say — benefit from medically supervised cures. The programme is complemented by classic building blocks such as massages or visits to thermal baths. Under specialist medical supervision a lifestyle can be changed step by step in this way — with the aim of more quality of life and well-being.
Back to inner calm and balance
Stress and an unhealthy way of life shape the health behaviour of many people today. A spa hotel or a massage offers relaxation in between. But whoever wants to change their life and their attitude from the ground up is better advised with medical supervision. A medical wellness stay supports exactly that — finding inner balance again and carrying on at home what was learned there, for a better sense of life in the long run.
A note on our own account: we are a wellness portal, not physicians — this article does not replace medical advice. With concrete complaints the way leads to a doctor; reliable information can also be found in the sources below.