ArticleInternational journal of telerehabilitation2021
Telerehabilitation for Post-Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Proof-of-Concept Study During a Pandemic.
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- Using Telehealth to Guarantee the Continuity of Rehabilitation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of progressive muscle relaxation as an add-on to pulmonary telerehabilitation in discharged patients with COVID-19: A randomised controlled trial.Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 2023Trial
- Effects of a home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program with and without telecoaching on health-related outcomes in COVID-19 survivors: a randomized controlled clinical study.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2023Trial
- User experiences of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome receiving occupational therapy telerehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Impact of a tailored exercise regimen on physical capacity and plasma proteome profile in post-COVID-19 condition.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Content, Mechanism, and Outcome of Effective Telehealth Solutions for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A Systematic Review of Telemedicine-Driven Pulmonary Rehabilitation after the Acute Phase of COVID-19.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Telerehabilitation in the Transitional Care of Patients with Sequelae Associated with COVID-19: Perception of Portuguese Nurses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Knowledge Structure and Emerging Trends of Telerehabilitation in Recent 20 Years: A Bibliometric AnalysisFrontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Applications of Healthcare Robots in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2021Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeTelerehabilitation could prevent sequelae from COVID-19. We aimed to assess the feasibility of telerehabilitation; describe pulmonary and functional profiles of COVID-19 patients; and explore the effect of telerehabilitation on improving pulmonary symptoms and quality of life.
methodsWe conducted a pre-experimental, pre-post pilot study. We recruited COVID-19 patients who had returned home following hospitalization. The intervention included eight weeks of supervised physiotherapy sessions. We documented technological issues, success of recruitment strategies, and participants' attendance to supervised sessions. We measured the impact of pulmonary symptoms on quality of life and functional health.
resultsWe scheduled 64 supervised sessions with seven participants with few technological issues. Initial scores showed that pulmonary symptoms moderately to highly impacted quality of life. At eight weeks, all patients had improved from 10 to 45 points on the EuroQol-Visual Analog Scale (EQ-VAS) instrument, indicating clinical significance.
conclusionWe developed and administered a telerehabilitation intervention during a global pandemic that targets key symptoms of the relevant disease.
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