BMJ Global Health - Conceptualising Long COVID as an episodic health condition - Darren A Brown, Kelly K O'Brien, 2021

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  1. Kalliope

    Kalliope Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Conceptualising Long COVID as an episodic health condition

    Conclusion

    Long COVID may be conceptualised as an episodic illness, characterised by health-related challenges (or disability) that may be multidimensional, episodic and unpredictable in nature.

    It is essential to better understand and define episodic disability experienced by people living with Long COVID and establish tools to measure the presence, severity and episodic nature of disability, in order to target timely and appropriate rehabilitation interventions and mitigate disability to enhance health outcomes for people living with Long COVID.

    The role for safe and effective rehabilitation is emerging in the context of Long COVID.4 While evidence continues to develop, rehabilitation professionals are well positioned to address episodic disability in Long COVID.

    Opportunities exist to build on successful disability and rehabilitation models from other chronic and episodic illnesses in the context of Long COVID.
     
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    alktipping Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    sounds like advertising waffle for a new gravy train .
     
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    straight out of PACE 'tweaking' manual.
    (ie saying that CBT/GET were effective at reducing symptoms during current 'episode' of CFS.)
     

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