{{Infobox interventions | Name = Climatotherapy | Image = | Caption = | ICD10 = | ICD9unlinked = | MeshID = D013790 | OPS301 = | OtherCodes = | }} '''Climatotherapy''' refers to temporary or permanent relocation of a patient to a region with a climate more favourable to recovery from or management of a condition. Examples include: * The partial pressure of oxygen is lower at high altitude, so a person with sickle cell disease might move to a lower altitude to reduce the number of sickle crises.<ref name="urlSickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk">{{cite web |url=http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/sickle-cell-disease-what-increases-your-risk |title=Sickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk |format= |accessdate=}}</ref><!-- This is ''awfully'' close to WP:SYN, as the source does not make any connection to "climatotherapy". --> * Several sites around the world are advertised or studied as possibly of therapeutic benefit to patients with psoriasis, most notably the Dead Sea region.<ref>[http://www.psoriasis.org/treatment/psoriasis/sun/other_sites.php Climatotherapy sites] {{webarchive|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090203130734/http://psoriasis.org:80/treatment/psoriasis/sun/other_sites.php|date=2009=-02-03}} National Psoriasis Foundation</ref><ref name=Hodak2003>{{Cite journal | last = Hodak | first = Emmilia |author2=Alice B. Gottlieb |author3=Tsvi Segal |author4=Yael Politi |author5=Lea Maron |author6=Jaqueline Sulkes |author7=Michael David | year = 2003 | title = Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea is a remittive therapy for psoriasis: combined effects on epidermal and immunologic activation | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology | volume = 49 | pages = 451–7 | doi = 10.1067/S0190-9622(03)00916-2 | pmid = 12963909 | issue = 3 }}</ref>
==See also== * Weather pains * Meteoropathy * Thalassotherapy
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