Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19: The Potential Role of Exercise Therapy in Treating Patients and Athletes Returning to Play 2022 Cavigli et al

Abstract

Post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) (PASC) describe a wide range of symptoms and signs involving multiple organ systems occurring after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, representing a growing health problem also in the world of sport and the athletic population. Patients with PASC have new, returning, or persisting symptoms four or more weeks after the infection. Among the most frequent symptoms, patients complain of fatigue, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, and reduced functional capacity that interfere with everyday life activity. The role of exercise programs in PASC patients will be identified, and upcoming studies will establish the magnitude of their benefits. However, the benefits of exercise to counteract these symptoms are well known, and an improvement in cardiopulmonary fitness, functional status, deconditioning, and quality of life can be obtained in these patients, as demonstrated in similar settings.

Based on this background, this review aims to summarise the current evidence about the PASC syndrome and the benefit of exercise in these patients and to provide a practical guide for the exercise prescription in PASC patients to help them to resume their functional status, exercise tolerance, prior activity levels, and quality of life, also considering the athletic population and their return to play and sports competitions.

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/1/288

 

When you completely skip the first step of the scientific method. And the 3rd. It's a 3-step process and they skip 2, smh.

Hard to make it anymore clear that they have their conclusions decided in advance. This not serious at all.

One thing that's clear is that medicine's understanding of exercise is comically inept. And of causality, frankly. And words, I guess. Still unable to grasp that it's exertion intolerance. Or not caring, either is terrible.

 

Once again for those not paying attention at the back. I did not have symptomatic COVID, I did not become deconditioned. I was fit, active, sporting etc - I simply developed "de novo" orthostatic intolerance and pathological fatigue etc.