Therapeutic Exercise Interventions through Telerehabilitation in Patients with Post COVID-19 Symptoms: A Systematic Review
Identifiers
Share
Metadata
Show full item recordAuthor/s
Bernal-Utrera, Carlos; Montero-Almagro, Gines; Anarte-Lazo, Ernesto; Gonzalez-Gerez, Juan Jose; Rodriguez-Blanco, Cleofas; [et al.]Date
2022-12-19Abstract
The worldwide incidence of COVID-19 has generated a pandemic of sequelae. These sequelae require multidisciplinary rehabilitative work to address the multisystemic symptoms that patients will present with now and in the future. The aim of the present systematic review is to analyze the current situation of telerehabilitation in patients with COVID-19 sequelae and its effectiveness. Searches were conducted on the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, PEDro, and Web of Science (WOS). There was no complete homogeneity among the five selected articles, so we differentiated two clinical subgroups for the clustering of outcome measures: (group one) patients with post-discharge symptoms and (group two) patients with permanent symptoms or “long COVID-19” defined as persistent symptoms > 2 months. For group one, post-discharge sequelae, improvements were obtained in cardiovascular parameters, and physical test studies in group two presented very favorable results in all the cardiorespiratory mea...
Palabra/s clave
exercise
telerehabilitation
COVID-19
physiotherapy
quality of life