Post-covid syndrome: a new concept of rehabilitation

Author: 
Khalid Taha Yassin Turky, Eman Kadry Abd- Elghany Elnaqeeb, Dina Mostafa El-Maleh and Heba Ali Abd El-Ghaffar

PandemicCOVID-19 beat every human body system leading to multi-organ disorders impacting medical, health care, socioeconomic and overall quality of life in every country. After recovery from acute infection, a significant number of the population develop persistent signs and symptoms lastingmore than three months or more termed a post-COVID syndrome (PCS), persisted post-COVID syndrome (PPCS), and long COVID. A rehabilitation program of multidisciplinary specialties was established to control and treat PCS.Physical exercise training exerts immunomodulatory effects that can enhance recovery, improvequality of life, provide immune protection, modulates inflammation, and stimulates nitric oxide synthesis pathways against PCS.Electrotherapy can prevent muscle atrophy, improve muscle strength,and function, and maintain blood flow in PCS.We must rememberfactors in PCS rehabilitationare quality of life, activities of daily living, pain, sleep quality, nutritional status, mood, and necessity of returning to work.Electrotherapy in form of high tone power therapy which has a special characteristic of amplitude and frequency able to control post-COVIDsymptoms and improve quality of life. In this context, we will briefly discuss a new concept of rehabilitation in post-covid syndrome.

Paper No: 
4193