https://actascientific.com/ASOR/pdf/ASOR-06-0704.pdf

Abstract

Since the emergence of the novel virus later termed COVID-19, its rate of infection and its widespread impact remains an immense public health concern and challenge. But how specifically can orthopaedic problems such as hip fractures and falls injuries, plus painful arthritis become specifically impacted? This mini review updates what is known about the recently observed long COVID syndrome neuromuscular challenges not apparently associated with their health history profile in all cases. A second was to establish if any health associated preventive and intervention can be recommended especially for the older adult with long COVID-19 manifestations, who may still be very vulnerable to falling, and fracturing a bone, plus varying degrees of joint pain. Although long COVID symptoms have been attributed to psychosocial factors, it appears that more attention to how COVID-19 can induce neuromuscular disability through biological mechanisms is indicated. Abbreviations SARS-COV-2 2019: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 Infection Introduction As of January 2023, endless reports pertaining to the outcomes of a lethal and novel corona virus later termed COVID-19 that emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 prevail. A pandemic of immense proportion [1], now, over three years since its onset, COVID-19 disease and its variants not only remain a serious global health concern, but a subgroup of older as well as younger postacute COVID-19 survivors are now found to manifest a wide array of persistent physical, neurological, functional, and mental health complaints deemed attributable to COVID-19 and variably termed 'long or post-acute COVID-19' syndrome [2,3-5]. As per current data, this complex non uniform health condition, which can manifest for up to one year, and possibly longer, is especially common in older COVID-19 survivors, who often have underlying multiple health conditions impacting multiple body systems including the neurological and musculoskeletal systems [5,6]. This mini review sought specific details on what is known about those multiple debilitating symptoms that include, but are not limited to: fatigue, shortness of breath, persistent coughing, joint and chest pain, muscle aches, muscle mass losses, headaches, and a cognitive condition situation known as 'brain fog' [1,3,6-8] that all have ramifications for the pursuit of optimal functional wellbeing among the older population. At present however, although the organ specific COVID-19 disease targets are quite well established [7], the emergent long COVID musculoskeletal and neurological disturbances observed in a sizeable percentage of COVID-19 survivors and how these interact at the physical, mental, and emotional health levels in older adults are less well charted, defined, differentiated, and understood, albeit clearly of high clinical as well as fiscal significance [9-15]. However, rather than examining all topical long COVID discussion papers and clinical reports, this present report elected to focus primarily on what is known about long CO...

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