Thalassotherapia Opatija Hospital

Thalassotherapia Opatija is the first health institution in Croatia and the region that introduced professional and modern heart patient rehabilitation. It was one of the first European hospitals to abandon a passive approach in the rehabilitation of heart patients in favour of active rehabilitation controlled by experts. For example, patients with heart failure were on bed rest and practised slow movements for three months. But not in Thalassotherapia Opatija, where they started active recovery