Some people are more likely to get long COVID because they don't have access to proper health care or can't afford it. Having a low income or not being able to get enough rest during the first few weeks of having COVID-19 also seems to raise the risk of getting long COVID, accord...
Long COVID is going to be with us indefinitely. But "there is no disease in the history of medicine that has been more studied in such a short period of time than COVID-19," he said. "And I look forward to seeing highly productive research that will impact patients in the very near...
Many long COVID sufferers had similar complaints. Graded exercise therapy was, I learned, incredibly controversial among sufferers of post-viral fatigue, ME, chronic fatigue syndrome and other similar disorders, who believed it made it harder to recover. There was even a name for the way ...
Perhaps nowhere has this been proven more important and more salient than in long Covid. When people with Covid that lasted longer than a few weeks started talking about their illness, they were often scoffed at or told that their problems were all in their head, by medical professionals and...
POTS is a manifestation of the systemic nature of long covid; it does not need specific treatment but will improve spontaneously as the patient goes through standard interventions such as active pacing, respiratory physical therapy and sleep hygiene; ...
8 weeks from their initial COVID diagnosis. Approximately 60% of patients are self-referred. Long COVID experts partner with consultants in pulmonary/sleep medicine, cardiology, neurology and physical medicine, as well as rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy, and mental h...
The BMJreports on examples where doctors have been challenged for speaking out in the media after talking about the role ofexercisein rehabilitation. But it also finds that beyond the controversy, some clinicians see an opportunity for long COVID to progress the understanding of post viral syndrome...
“I had long COVID before it had a name,” she told me. Yet even after it had a name, even after she had been assessed, X-rayed, had an MRI and countless blood tests, she was little better off. And even once people started talking about it, the name “long COVID” offered no...
"I've been working on chronic fatigue syndrome for almost eight years; when long COVID came along it was like déjà vu," said Bonilla, a clinical associate professor and an infectious disease physician who is a co-director of the Stanford Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic. "This is no...
Loneliness Awareness Week (which took place last week, the 12th-18th June) was set up by Marmalade Trust to get people talking about loneliness and how we can combat it, so that we can support ourselves and others. Recognising and managing mental health issues, early on ...