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Daynes E, Mills G, Hull JH, Bishop NC, Bakali M, Burtin C, McAuley HJC, Singh SJ, Greening NJ. Pulmonary Rehabilitation for People With Persistent Symptoms After COVID-19. Chest 2024; 166:461-471. [PMID: 38246521 DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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TOPIC IMPORTANCE COVID-19 can cause ongoing and persistent symptoms (such as breathlessness and fatigue) that lead to reduced functional capacity. There are parallels in symptoms and functional limitations in adults with post-COVID symptoms and adults with chronic respiratory diseases. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a key treatment for adults with chronic respiratory diseases, with the aims to improve symptom management and increase functional capacity. Given the similarities in presentation and aims, a pulmonary rehabilitation program may be optimal to meet the needs of those with ongoing symptoms after COVID-19. REVIEW FINDINGS Aerobic and strength training has shown benefit for adults living with long COVID, although there is little evidence on structured education in this population. Breathing pattern disorder is common in adults with long COVID, and considerations on treatment before rehabilitation, or alongside rehabilitation, are necessary. Considerations on postexertional malaise are important in this population, and evidence from the chronic fatigue syndrome literature supports the need for individualization of exercise programs, and considerations for those who have an adverse reaction to activity and/or exercise. SUMMARY This narrative review summarizes the current evidence on pulmonary rehabilitation programs in a long-COVID population. Where the evidence is lacking in long COVID the supporting evidence of these programs in chronic respiratory diseases has highlighted the importance of aerobic and strength training, considerations for fatigue, potential mechanisms for immunology improvement, and management of breathing pattern disorders in these programs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Enya Daynes
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England.
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
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- Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, England; Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, University College London, London, England
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, England
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- REVAL Rehabilitation Center, BIOMED Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England; Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
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Moncer R, Loubiri I, Melki S, Frigui S, Ouannes W, Ben Abdelaziz A, Jemni S. An update on the access to inpatient rehabilitation facilities across Tunisia in 2023. LA TUNISIE MEDICALE 2024; 102:83-86. [PMID: 38567473 PMCID: PMC11358814 DOI: 10.62438/tunismed.v102i2.4679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Considering the growing global need and the complexity of health conditions, an intensive rehabilitation in inpatient departments is fundamental. Yet, in Tunisia, the distribution of Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities is not illustrated. AIM To perform an update concerning the rehabilitation's beds-ratio /1000 Tunisian-inhabitants in 2023. METHODS Data were collected from the Tunisian Ministry of Health, the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, and the National Institute of Statistics websites. RESULTS The findings revealed a total number of rehabilitations' beds 132 among a total of 20000 hospital beds with a rehabilitations' beds-ratio equal to 0.01/1000 inhabitants. Only three Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities were identified in Tunisia covering the Greater Tunis, North East, and Center east districts. There was inequity of distribution since the beds ratio is 1.07/1000 in the North east, 0.02/1000 in the Greater Tunis and 0 in the North West and the South of Tunisia. CONCLUSION This update highlighted the alarmingly low rehabilitation's beds-ratio in Tunisia, coupled to a significant regional disparity. Increasing beds in the existing Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and extending outpatient rehabilitation departments with inpatient units might be considered urgent solutions.
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- Rihab Moncer
- Department of physical medicine, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Department of physical medicine, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
- Information systems department, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Research laboratory LR19SP01, Sousse
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- Department of physical medicine, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Department of physical medicine, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
- Information systems department, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Research laboratory LR19SP01, Sousse
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- Department of physical medicine, Sahloul hospital Sousse
- Faculty of medicine, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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Singh SJ, Daynes E, McAuley HJC, Raman B, Greening NJ, Chalder T, Elneima O, Evans RA, Bolton CE. Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review. Eur Respir Rev 2023; 32:230110. [PMID: 38123233 PMCID: PMC10731468 DOI: 10.1183/16000617.0110-2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to ongoing symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and muscle pain, which can have a substantial impact on an individual. Exercise-based rehabilitation programmes have proven beneficial in many long-term conditions that share similar symptoms. These programmes have favourably influenced breathlessness, fatigue and pain, while also increasing functional capacity. Exercise-based rehabilitation may benefit those with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19. However, some precautions may be necessary prior to embarking on an exercise programme. Areas of concern include ongoing complex lung pathologies, such as fibrosis, cardiovascular abnormalities and fatigue, and concerns regarding post-exertional symptom exacerbation. This article addresses these concerns and proposes that an individually prescribed, symptom-titrated exercise-based intervention may be of value to individuals following infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sally J Singh
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Oxford, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford UK
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - Respiratory, Leicester, UK
- Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Centre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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- Centre for Respiratory Research, Translational Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, UK
- Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK
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