THE FIRST SPRUCE OINTMENT AND THE MISSION OF THE COMPANY SPRUCE
Ever since 1990, when Ivo Konc produced the first spruce ointment in Nakle, our mission has been exclusively the development, production and monitoring of the effects of products with spruce resin . All this in cooperation with nature and a sustainable vision. Check out how it all started...
FIRST SPRUCE RESIN OINTMENT
IT ALL STARTED IN A SMALL WORKSHOP IN NAKLO NEAR KRANJ
Due to his own problems, Ivo Konc developed the first spruce resin ointment in Naklo near Kranj in 1989. At first, in front of the garage of his house and later he arranged a small building in front of the house for this purpose.
JANEZ KONC IN EQUIPING THE SPRUCE RESIN OINTMENT
Ivo Konc has had problems with his spine since the age of 10, which escalated to the stage, that his doctor advised an operation as the only option to avoid disability. Through Ms. Prežla in Lesce, he was introduced to the efficiency of spruce resin and in 1989, developed the first spruce resin ointment. He was never operated on.
WE MOVED TO LJUBLJANA
Since 2010, the company and its mission have been continued by Ivo’s son, Matic Konc, whose life path brought him to Ljubljana, where we also moved the company and production in 2015.
In 1989, Ivo Konc designed Smrekovit Klasik (spruce resin ointment), the first spruce resin ointment in this part of Europe. This was because of this was unbearable back pain that he had felt since the age of 10, when he overcame tick-borne meningitis. From then on, the problems only became worse and were so severe that at the end of his studies at the Faculty of Sport, he was exempted from performing the practical part of the exams, and in 1974, he was also exempted from military service in the then Yugoslavian People's Army. At that time, the specialist doctor suggested an operation as the only option to avoid disability before age 30. He declined the operation and started looking for natural treatments. This was how he came to Ms. Prežle in Lesce, who gave him resin wraps, with which he effectively coped with pain in his spine.
When he dislocated a finger on his hand in 1989, Ms. Prežle's black and sticky wrap was not suitable for treatment and thus he made the first spruce ointment. Although he could not help himself and his dislocation with his invention, it was effective for many other problems. The spruce resin ointment spread through the whole of Yugoslavia at that time in two years, through neighbours, friends and acquaintances who excitedly spread the word of its effectiveness. In 1990, he opened a business.
📽 Ivo Konc on the 30th anniversary of Smrekovita in 2020
EXPERIENCE WITH SPRUCE RESIN OINTMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS
After finishing Secondary nursing school, Matic Konc graduated from the Faculty of Sports and Faculty of Pharmacy. He constantly learned more about spruce resin and its functions. In 2010, he took over the company and its mission from father Ivo Konc and made great progress in the development of spruce resin products.
PRODUCTION ADJUSTED TO PRODUCTS FROM SPRUCE RESIN
The equipment in our laboratory is fully adapted to the production and development of completely natural spruce resin products. This has allowed us to develop new products, such as spruce resin cream Smrekovit 365, spruce resin cream with cooling effect, Smrekovit Ekstra, Smrekovit capsules and Smrekovit oral spray.
PURCHASE AND CONSULTING
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Knowledge about spruce resin's medicinal properties, acquired through the experience of the many users of Smrekovit Klasik (spruce resin ointment) and research into its chemical properties in 2010 led to the development of a new product, Smrekovit Ekstra (spruce resin ointment with cooling effect), which was jointly designed by Ivo Konc and his son Matic Konc. The latter took over the company and its mission in 2010. At the end of February 2015, he moved the company's headquarters and production to Ljubljana (Podmolniška cesta 14). With further education, deepening his knowledge of chemistry, researching of spruce resin properties and upgrading laboratory equipment, in 2016, he developed new, even better and more efficient products, such as Spruce resin creams Smrekovit 365, Smrekovit Ekstra in a tube, Smrekovit capsules and Smrekovit oral spray.
📽 Ivo Konc about Matic Konc in the program Podjetno vaše on RTV SLO, June 2023
ASSOCIATES
Owner and director of the company as well as a worker in production and developer of new products from spruce resin.
📽 Matic Konc in the show Podjetno naše on RTV Slo 2023
IVO KONC
The founder of the company and the first in this part of Europe, who, according to the tradition of his ancestors, began to produce spruce resin ointment for the market in 1990.
📽 Ivo Konc - interview for Gorenjska television 2001
ROMAN PERKO
Successfully continues the implementation of Smrekovit manipulation therapy according to the principle of the pioneer of the therapy, Ivo Konc.
ANTON LORENZZUTTI
ensures that spruce resin is always in stock
📽 Anton Lorenzzutti about his work
SMREKOVIT MANIPULATION THERAPY
PRINCIPLE OF METHOD
The method is purely mechanical and is based on stretching, mechanical adjustment of those moving parts of the skeleton, which, by pressing on the nerve, cause problems along the nerve that is compressed. Usually, these problems involve slight displacements of the vertebrae, which then, depending on the location of the displacements, cause pain either locally in the spine, or if the pinched nerve activates a large number of muscles, often also outside the spine area, which manifests itself as pain in the legs that spreads through the buttocks to the thigh and down to the toes (sciatica), pain in the hands, weakened hand strength, tingling in the hands or feet, headaches, etc. These subluxations (slight joint movements) can also occur in other joints, most commonly in the shoulder, and can also cause problems along the entire limb. The mechanical adjustment of such movements with Smrekovit manipulative therapy has proven to be an excellent aid in the use of Smrekovit products.
Shortly after 1990, when he started producing Smrekovit Klasik (spruce ointment) , Ivo Konc developed his own Spruce manipulative therapy , with which, with great feeling and with the help of Spruce Klasik (spruce ointment) soon had great success in rehabilitating sports injuries. People then went to him en masse, and with the help of his intervention and Smrekovit products, many recovered practically "overnight" from problems that had been bothering them for years (sciatica, pain in the lower back, in the neck of the spine, pain in the hands and legs and headaches as a result of spine problems, etc.)
Manual treatment of the spine was already known in ancient Egypt and Greece, and was allegedly practiced by Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. Gregor Ahčin from Domžale had the greatest influence on Ivota Konac when developing his own manipulative therapy . "He was a miracle worker, a master of manipulation," he says himself.
📽 Roman Perko in the program Podjetno naše on RTV SLO, June 2023
Through knowledge of functional anatomy (as a professor of physical education), experience with sports injuries during 20 years of coaching work with ski jumpers (he also participated in the rise of the Nordic combination in the mid-90s) and during his work as a therapist in the early 90s. at the football first league NK Naklo and under the influence of Gregor Ahčin, developed his "Spruce manipulative therapy" for the treatment of the spine and some other problems. His manipulative therapy is successfully continued by Roman Perko, former junior world champion in the Nordic combination, and Ivo Konc himself is still an amateur.