Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Rowers coming from the surrounding area, with registration at the Hungarian Rowing Federation (MESZ), including competitive/touring and recreational/masters rowers * Women and men between 18 and 75 years of age * Participating in regular training for at least 6 months * Signed informed consent form prior to the start of the study Exclusion Criteria: * Acute pain; * Organic neurological deficit; * Malignancy in the background; * Pain attributable to inflammatory disease; * Participants must not have received systemic or local steroid therapy, physiotherapy as a course of treatment, massage therapy, or balneotherapy as a course of treatment within 3 months prior to the study; General contraindications of balneotherapy: * unstable angina pectoris, * uncontrolled hypertension, * cardiac decompensation, * respiratory failure, * unbalanced endocrinological disease, * acute febrile condition, * infectious skin diseases, * other serious internal, urogenital, and other diseases, urinary and fecal incontinence, * decompensated psychosis and neurosis, lack of compliance