Opinion Can Intermittent Hypoxic Conditioning Enhance the Benefits of Standard Long COVID‐19 Rehabilitation?, 2025, Kambič et al

Can Intermittent Hypoxic Conditioning Enhance the Benefits of Standard Long COVID‐19 Rehabilitation?

Tim Kambič, Tadej Debevec, Mitja Lainscak

Last paragraph
In summary, the future of multimodal long COVID‐19 rehabilitation consisting of concurrent exercise training [21] and behavioural interventions [11] combined with effective IHC [intermittent hypoxia conditioning] looks bright. Prospective work is nevertheless, warranted, to provide further insights into the question whether the short‐term effects of IHC timely presented by Doehner et al. [19] can be maintained/enhanced by using a longer, individually tailored interventions for the most vulnerable patients' populations with persistent long COVID‐19 syndromes (patients with pre‐existing sarcopenia, after longer hospitalisation and/or with multiple metabolic and cardiopulmonary comorbidities).

Link | PDF (Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle) [Open Access]

 

So, they want to strangle people who don't recover from LC? Starting with the sickest a.k.a. the most vulnerable first (presumably as the sickest LC patients/victims won't be able to fight back as effectively and this could mean that less restraints might be needed?)

 

Their argument for using rehab:

With pulmonary symptoms at a centre stage, several exercise training modalities for patients with long‐COVID were effectively translated from standard pulmonary rehabilitation [13]​

13 is this, which reads like an opinion piece disguised as a ‘review’ (unknow of what):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10245142/

 

@forestglip can you tag it as an editorial?

 

There's no Editorial tag, but I marked it as Opinion.

 

And [11] is Interventions for the management of long covid post-covid condition: living systematic review (2024)

So personally I'd rephrase as —

In summary, the future of multimodal long COVID‐19 rehabilitation consisting of concurrent exercise training [21] and behavioural interventions [11] combined with effective IHC looks not terribly bright.​