Long Covid and graded exercise therapy | Letter

No trials of graded exercise have shown to harm patients, sayDr Alastair Miller,Prof Paul GarnerandProf Peter White,so those with post-Covid fatigue syndrome should not be discouraged from trying itDr Joanna Herman is right to call out the lack of care being offered to sufferers of long Covid (People with long Covid urgently need help. Why can ’t we access it?, 10 March). The willingness of doctors to speak out as patients has done much to highlight the long-term effects of Covid-19.We know that long Covid is more than one disease, all of which will need different treatments. But we do not know that graded exercise therapy is detrimental to recovery from the post-Covid fatigue syndrome. There are no such studies.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Physiotherapists Source Type: news