What is the role of Physiotherapy in COVID patients?
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Can Physiotherapy help COVID positive patients recover? The answer is Yes, in this blog, we are explaining the role of Physiotherapy in Covid Covid-Recovered patients.
- Most cases of COVID–19 are expected to be mild or asymptomatic. Although the researches show that individuals might have delayed complications such as myocarditis, pulmonary fibrosis, encephalitis, thromboembolic events and psychiatric illness as well as persisting symptoms such as dyspnoea, cough, and fatigue, little is known about how often such complications occur in individual with mild or asymptomatic disease. Survey-based estimates of symptom persistence may vary example- dyspnoea after recovery from primary SARS CoV-2 infection has been reported in 10-20 % of patients in one study and up to 75% of patients in another study.
- COVID-19 infection has the characteristic of strong transmission capability, diverse clinical manifestations and a long incubation period which poses a serious threat to human life. COVID-19 infection can cause myocardial injury which is closely related to disease progression, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Along these lines, individuals suffering from COVID-19 infection with underlying cardiovascular disease have an extremely poor prognosis and a higher risk of overall mortality.
- COVID-19 related cardiovascular disease can be due to microthrombus formation,
vasculitis involving small cardiac vessels or secondary to ‘demand ischemia’ in the setting of fever and tachycardia. COVID-19 invades cardiomyocytes directly, causing cardiomyocyte damage and viral myocarditis. - Patients should be encouraged to continue their medications at this time to manage their diabetes, hypertension and any preexisting heart failure. Close monitoring of heart function in patients with COVID-19 and the utilization of various therapeutic interventions can prevent or at least limit myocardial injury in patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease and thereby reduce mortality.
- During the initial phase of the COVID-19 outbreak, the diagnosis of the disease was complicated by the diversity in symptoms and imaging findings and in the severity of the disease at the time of
presentation. Fever was identified in nearly half of the reported cases on presentation but after hospitalization most of them had fever. - During the first two months of the outbreak of novel corona virus, it spread rapidly throughout China and caused varying degrees of illness. Patients often presented without fever and many did not have abnormal radiological findings.
- Heart injury caused by COVID – 19 infections might be an important cause of severe clinical phenotypes or adverse events in affected patients. Myocardial damage is closely related to the severity of the disease and even the prognosis in patients with COVID-19. In addition to disorders caused by COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system more protection should be employed for patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease. Hence it is very important that once relevant symptoms appear patients with COVID-19 be rapidly treated to reduce mortality. Thus, early measurements of cardiac damage via biomarkers following hospitalization for COVID-19 infection in a patient with preexisting cardiovascular disease are recommended together with careful monitoring of any myocardial injury that might be caused by the infection.
Can Physiotherapy help COVID positive patients recover? As per recent researches published in Indian and Foreign journals and patient data it has been proved that COVID-19 has affected the cardiopulmonary system of the affected population and resulted in reduced chest compliance, low energy, increased dependency on external sources of oxygen, breathlessness, shortness of breath, reduced cardiac output , generalized weakness.
- Physiotherapy for COVID or physiotherapy treatment for COVID has helped improve the cardiac output and life of people and has also helped them bounce back to life after COVID.
- Physiotherapy has proved to be extremely beneficial for the tested positive patients and others who were prone to get affected, since working on the chest and breathing muscles helps strengthen them reduce the complications of COVID on patients.
- DNPR has a team of researchers and physiotherapists who work extensively for the betterment of people by providing them physiotherapy and rehabilitation exercises for improving the overall health of the people.