Practical Recommendations for Exercise Training in Patients with Long COVID with or without Post-exertional Malaise: A Best Practice Proposal.

COVID-19 Fatigue PEM PESE Post exertional symptom exacerbation Post-COVID Pulmonary rehabilitation Rehabilitation SARS-CoV-2

Journal

Sports medicine - open
ISSN: 2199-1170
Titre abrégé: Sports Med Open
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101662568

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
24 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 24 10 2023
accepted: 05 03 2024
medline: 25 4 2024
pubmed: 25 4 2024
entrez: 24 4 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

People with long COVID may suffer from a wide range of ongoing symptoms including fatigue, exertional dyspnea, reduced exercise performance, and others. In particular, impaired exercise performance is a condition that can be recovered in many people through an individualized physical exercise training program. However, clinical experience has shown that the presence of post-exertional malaise (PEM) is a significant barrier to physical exercise training in people with long COVID. Currently, there is no guideline or consensus available on how to apply exercise training in this cohort. Therefore, we conducted a literature review in the PubMed library using the following search terms: "COVID", "post-COVID", "long COVID" and "exercise" searching for studies from January 2020 to January 2024. Data from 46 trials were included. Exercise training regimes were very heterogeneous and none of these studies reported on the management of PEM in the context of an exercise training program. Based on the feedback from an additional survey that was answered by 14 international experts in the field of exercise training in long COVID, combined with the authors´ own extensive practical experience, a best practice proposal for exercise training recommendations has been developed. This proposal differentiates exercise procedures according to the presence of no, mild/moderate or severe PEM in people with long COVID. These recommendations may guide allied healthcare professionals worldwide in initiating and adjusting exercise training programs for people with long COVID, stratified according to the presence and severity of PEM.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38658496
doi: 10.1186/s40798-024-00695-8
pii: 10.1186/s40798-024-00695-8
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

47

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Rainer Gloeckl (R)

Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany.

Ralf H Zwick (RH)

Therme Wien Med, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research, Vienna, Austria.

Ulrich Fürlinger (U)

Therme Wien Med, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research, Vienna, Austria.

Tessa Schneeberger (T)

Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany.

Daniela Leitl (D)

Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany.

Inga Jarosch (I)

Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany.

Uta Behrends (U)

Childrens' Hospital, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Berlin, Germany.

Carmen Scheibenbogen (C)

Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Andreas Rembert Koczulla (AR)

Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany. RKoczulla@schoen-klinik.de.
Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany. RKoczulla@schoen-klinik.de.
Teaching Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. RKoczulla@schoen-klinik.de.

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