Exercise in an Overweight Patient with Covid-19: A Case Study

Abstract

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a dangerous infectious disease that is easily transmitted and which is called an acute respiratory syndrome. With the spread of the coronavirus around the world and its epidemic among humans, we are losing many humans. The long process of treatment in hospitalized patients who are receiving intensive care and medication is associated with physical weakness. It has been suggested that lifelong exercise can create a safe margin for a person that allows them to avoid becoming infected with the virus. The current study was conducted to assess the effects of low-intensity exercise and breathing exercises on cardiorespiratory responses and physical status in an overweight 20-year-old woman infected with COVID-19. The patient was referred to Hazrat Ali Ibn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan. The patient had initial symptoms of coronavirus including weakness, shortness of breath, fever, and chills, and the initial tests confirmed that the person was infected with the coronavirus. Although COVID-19 reduces respiration and blood oxygen and severely reduces movement and physical activity, low-intensity rehabilitation and breathing exercises along with medication can improve blood oxygen status, resting heart rate, blood pressure, and hand power status in patients and possibly speeding up the healing process. The results of the present study show that low-intensity exercise and breathing exercises in patients with COVID-19, whose disease severity is mild to moderate, can be performed safely under the supervision of their physicians to prevent the disease process.

Systematic Review of COVID-19-Related Physical Activity-Based Rehabilitations: Benefits to Be Confirmed by More Robust Methodological Approaches

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A Guide to Different Intensities of Exercise, Vaccination, and Sports Nutrition in the Course of Preparing Elite Athletes for the Management of Upper Respiratory Infections during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review

“…High-intensity training can continue until a day before the second dose, when training intensity should be reduced again. Elite athletes have been shown to experience headaches, chills, fever, and muscle aches for 1 to 3 days after receiving the second dose [70,71]. Thus, the exercise intensity should kept low until the fourth day after receiving the second dose and then increase gradually [21,72].…”

Multimodal Benefits of Exercise in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis and COVID-19

“…Patients can experience muscle weakness and atrophy, tendon, and neuromuscular impairments in intensive and long-term health care ( Gentil et al, 2021 ). Engaging in regular physical exercise prior to infection (and even early after infection) can reduce these complications ( Calverley et al, 2020 ; Hekmatikar et al, 2021 ) and also limit mental and physical stress ( Silverman and Deuster, 2014 ). The beneficial adaptions to exercise training can occur within 4 days to 26 weeks ( Batouli and Saba, 2017 ).…”