Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks & Ötztal Osteoarthritis Campus

Welcome to Osteoarthritis Health Holiday 2.0 - a new chapter begins!

A lot has happened since the introduction of our osteoarthritis health holiday in 2018. Thanks to the enthusiasm of our osteoarthritis holidaymakers, our offer to improve mobility and pain has continued to grow and develop. Now we are at the beginning of an exciting new phase: 2025 will be the year of the osteoarthritis health holiday 2.0 at the Vivea Hotel Umhausen in Ötztal!

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Six specialised

Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks

From 2025 we will be offering six compact programmes at the Vivea Hotel Umhausen in Ötztal Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks - including keynote speeches by joint experts and therapists as part of the Ötztal Arthrosis Campus - focussing on joint complaints, joint pain, joint wear and tear and artificial joints.

The specially developed Vivea arthrosis holiday programme aims to alleviate the symptoms of arthrosis and improve joint function.

Through targeted educational and therapeutic measures, sufferers are supported in strengthening osteoarthritis self-management and promoting well-being.

➥ The idea behind it: Osteoarthritis sufferers actively get their joints fit and strengthen their osteoarthritis self-management in a relaxed holiday atmosphere. Participants in the Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks enjoy all the benefits of a wellness and spa hotel specialising in health tourism with corresponding medical services, fitness and nutrition programmes as well as therapies to promote well-being and joint health.

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Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks 2026

The Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Weeks can be booked on six dates per year and are individually tailored to joint complaints in the hip, knee, shoulder, hand and foot.

➥ Arthrofibrosis after knee surgery: April 12 to 19, 2026

➥ All joints & spine: April 19 to 26, 2026

➥ Hip & knee: October 18 to 25, 2026

➥ Hip & knee: November 25 to 1, 2026

➥ All joints: November 8 to 15, 2026

➥ All joints & hand: November 15 to 22, 2026

Take advantage of the concentrated therapy weeks to achieve maximum progress in a short period of time and promote your joint health in one of the most beautiful and active regions in Austria - the Tyrolean Ötztal!

The enthusiasm of our arthrosis holiday guests has encouraged us,

to continue on this path and further develop our offer for more joint vitality . Based on seven years of valuable experience, well-founded feedback from our guests and the scientific and practical insights of our therapists, doctors and leading experts in orthopaedics and physiotherapy, we are undertaking a comprehensive redesign of our osteoarthritis health holiday.

Ötztal Arthrosis Campus

Keynote speeches 2025

SPRING 2025

✓ Thursday, 15 May 2025

AUTUMN 2025

✓ Thursday, 9 October 2025
✓ Thursday, 16 October 2025
✓ Thursday, 13 November 2025
✓ Tuesday, 18 November 2025

WINTER 2025

✓ Thursday, 27 November 2025

The keynote speeches will be followed by an opportunity to talk to the experts!

Ötztal Arthrosis Campus

Programme overview

Spring 2025:

Joint pain & joint replacement

Thursday, 15 May 2025 ↴

16.00: What helps with osteoarthritis pain?
Understanding and alleviating osteoarthritis pain with functional therapy
Monika Peer-Kratzer, physiotherapist and psychologist, Chairwoman of Physio Austria Tirol, Rehab Peer Innsbruck-Igls
>> Find out more at www.rehabpeer.at
16.15: You don't always have to go the whole hog!
Partial slides for the knee - a gentle alternative
Dr Christoph Raas, PHD, Orthoalps Innsbruck specialist practice
>> Find out more at www.orthoalps.at
4.30 p.m.: Is osteoarthritis curable?
New drugs on the horizon or a dead end for the pharmaceutical industry?
Chris Ladel, PhD - The European NetwOArk on Osteoarthritis (NetwOArk) and Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI)
16.45: How promising is osteoarthritis research in Austria and worldwide?
Ap. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.rer.nat Sylvia Nürnberger, Medical University of Vienna, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Austrian Cluster of Tissue Engineering

The Arthrosis Health Holiday 2.0 stands for a compact new era of health prevention and therapy in an environment that promotes healing and well-being.

We cordially invite you to actively take your joint health into your own hands and look forward to seeing you

to welcome you to the Vivea Hotel Umhausen in the Ötztal!

Ötztal Vital Osteoarthritis Week

7 Nights

Sunday to Sunday

2026: 12 - 19.04. | 19 - 26.04. | 18 - 25.10. | 25.10. - 01.11. | 08 - 15.11. | 15 - 22.11.

✓ incl. full board
✓ 13 individual therapies
✓ Ötztal Osteoarthritis Campus
✓ Impulse lectures with key specialists

by € 196,00 to € 232,00
per person / night

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