To create a company like Medical Tourism Italy, one should be a visionary as an entrepreneur. However, an entrepreneur, no matter how skilled they are, can’t make it on their own, especially when the business has to do with medical issues, for which it is necessary to be continuously updated. The birth of Medical Tourism Italy is connected to the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
The very first patient was an Italian American diagnosed with this excruciating condition and, in a desperate search for a solution, they found out that Italy had the most effective solution available. This is how they contacted the company that organized the stay, including specialists’ appointments and follow-ups.
As a country, Italy offers many different excellences in the medical field, however, considering the area in which the company was founded, it made sense to start with rheumatological conditions. Rheumatology is a branch of medicine that treats conditions involving the whole body, including muscular, nervous, and bone tissues.
In Italy, CRPS is usually treated as a rheumatological syndrome while, in the United States, a patient would most likely get diagnosed and treated by a neurologist. This doesn’t mean that one is right and the other is wrong, after all, CRPS can be diagnosed by any doctor, even a physiotherapist, if they are familiar with the Budapest Criteria. This condition alone requires great collaboration between doctors and specialists so, it was not easy to make all the services available to a patient traveling for treatment, it was a great starting point to build a network. Not only that, but this condition is also still considered a “rare disease”, meaning that it still requires lots of research and continuous updates in available options.
This is true for many conditions involving chronic pain. This is also why Medical Tourism Italy was able to have a major basis to take off from, in managing chronic pain. Since the company’s early years, the network grew and developed programs for many conditions, from CRPS to fibromyalgia, all the way to osteoporosis.
Opening a new branch requires lots of studying on the company’s side and conversing with professors and therapists. Recently the company introduced a new world of therapies called “precision medicine” which allows the treatment of a chronic condition without the use of medicines, preferring a supplement program. Again, this was only possible thanks to an ever-expanding network with selected specialists of every sort.
Such a network, though, does not only have to go with doctors and therapists. For example, MTI was also able to dialogue with researchers and universities. This is the case of a new type of magnetic therapy, called biophysical therapy, specifically designed for these conditions. This needs to be tuned and regulated according to the individual case, it has no standard frequency and can be remotely adjusted considering all the data it collects in every session.
The biophysical therapy was an adventure of its own: the CEO and employees were tasked and went in first person to find the correct option. Magnetic therapy was nothing new in Italian healthcare, as much as any other, however, the company had to find something suitable for use in a relatively short time that could provide an immediate outcome. It was no job they had to try many options until they found a company that works with some of the best universities in the country. Choosing the machine was not enough; they had to adjust it to their needs. For example, it needed to be adapted to a hotel environment and simple to operate for patients who often are not experts.
This is why, as it may sound complicated, and for some aspects it is, Medical Tourism Italy decided to begin from rare conditions. The company is already working for the future, to include testing and treatment for not only rheumatic conditions. Italian excellence can be found in the research as well as the available treatments.