Coming study: Short-time behavioural intervention in post-Covid syndrome: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial (SIPCOV), Wyller, Flottorp et al

The treatment in SIPCOV is (google translated from the presentation):

You first get an hour with a doctor where we map your condition. Our understanding of your condition is reviewed with you, including what can happen in the body during and after an infection. This knowledge and understanding of disease mechanisms is the basis for further follow-up.

Then you get individual follow-up by a physiotherapist. Rehabilitation is based on elements from cognitive behavioral therapy and graded activity adaptation and involves conversations about coping and handling the situation in the future, as well as guidance with regard to common activities and tasks, including training, and how to gradually increase tolerance for just this.

Ahus (Wyller's hospital): Korttidsbehandling mot senfølger etter covid-19 (SIPCOV)
google translation: Short-term treatment for late effects after covid-19 (SIPCOV)

Link to study protocol which is in English:
Short-time behavioural intervention in post-Covid syndrome (SIPCOV): A pragmatic randomised controlled trial

 

Wyller and Flottorp recently talked about Long Covid for an article by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The article was shared in the thread "BPS attempts at psychologising Long Covid", but its of relevance here as well:


Ekspertar meiner korona varer lenger om du er redd
google translation: Experts believe corona lasts longer if you're afraid

- The cause is complex, but worries and stress seem to both prolong and worsen the symptoms, says Wyller.

Signe Flottorp, head of research at FHI, also says that if one monitors the symptoms too much, the disease can last longer.

- Being afraid of getting ailments can in itself aggravate and perpetuate similar symptoms, she says.

- Then it sounds as if those with long covid are hypochondriacs. Are they really that?

- It is not the case that one should feel ashamed of not having recovered. It's a balance. Certainly if you're really struggling you can't just pull yourself together, says Flottorp in FHI.

Wyller explains that symptoms from long covid can be related to other connections in the brain.

- It is not something that is someone's fault, or something one imagines. The brain monitors the body all the time. Sometimes he will perceive things wrong.

If this is the case, the brain needs to be retrained. And then the brain needs other experience.

And here comes the attention one gives the disease in, according to Wyller.

- This means that it may make sense to use the body carefully. Then the brain will gradually learn that it is going well.

The challenge for doctors is to convey this to people, without those who are ill feeling that it has not been taken seriously.

 

Really, can we see the evidence for this causal relationship?

 

They just change a few words and call it a day. Must have taken them at least... 20 minutes to accomplish that. All in a day's work for them. The lack of effort is showing, phoning in phoning it in.

People who report more symptoms are usually ill longer, which is one of the few actual predictors of LC. That's usually the goto circular reasoning for this. It doesn't bother them that it's far more likely to be true than whatever it is they imagine instead, they have the power to write down their preferred version of causality, even though it's far less likely to be true than whatever they're imagining. There is demand for this hopium, and they will supply it in bulk.

 

This is what pacing is called in Norwegian - activity adaption.
So graded activity adaption means graded pacing.

I laughed out loud when I read it first time. It's just too absurd.

 

We say "tull" but I couldn't find any info of its etymology, so don't know what it means other than it's used both for nonsense and for innocent kidding around. Tripe is much more fitting!

 

Is too harsh possible in this context?

 

Hmmm, it's really lacking in the "full of shit" department that truly defines genuine tripe.

This is real, genuine, bona fide tripe.