Physical and psychological reconditioning in long COVID syndrome: Results of an out-of-hospital exercise and psychological - based rehabilitation program

Compagno, S; Palermi, Stefano; Pescatore, Valentina; Brugin, Erica; Sarto, Marzia; Marin, Ruggero; Calzavara, Valli; Nizzetto, Manuele; Scevola, M; Aloi, Accurso; Biffi, Alessandro; Zanella, C.; Carretta, Giovanni; Gallo, Silvia; Giada, Franco

doi:10.1016/j.ijcha.2022.101080

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“…Compagno et al reported the use of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation (MDR) program, including both physical training and psychological treatment, to stimulate psycho-motor parameters in patients with Long COVID. These authors suggested that the MDR program is safe and feasible in these patients and could reduce residual symptoms and promote physical and psychological recovery [ 104 ]. Fine et al described the guidelines statement about the Long-COVID-related cognitive symptom assessment coupled with the specific cognitive disease, as well as the specific treatment recommendations [ 105 ].…”

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Psychological and Cognitive Effects of Long COVID: A Narrative Review Focusing on the Assessment and Rehabilitative Approach

Luca

Bonanno

Calabrò

2022

JCM

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Long COVID is a clinical syndrome characterized by profound fatigue, neurocognitive difficulties, muscle pain, weakness, and depression, lasting beyond the 3–12 weeks following infection with SARS-CoV-2. Among the symptoms, neurocognitive and psychiatric sequelae, including attention and memory alterations, as well as anxiety and depression symptoms, have become major targets of current healthcare providers given the significant public health impact. In this context, assessment tools play a crucial role in the early screening of cognitive alterations due to Long COVID. Among others, the general cognitive assessment tools, such as the Montreal Cognitive assessment, and more specific ones, including the State Trait Inventory of Cognitive Fatigue and the Digit Span, may be of help in investigating the main neurocognitive alterations. Moreover, appropriate neurorehabilitative programs using specific methods and techniques (conventional and/or advanced) through a multidisciplinary team are required to treat COVID-19-related cognitive and behavioral abnormalities. In this narrative review, we sought to describe the main neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms as well as to provide some clinical advice for the assessment and treatment of Long COVID.

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Psychological and Cognitive Effects of Long COVID: A Narrative Review Focusing on the Assessment and Rehabilitative Approach

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Bonanno

Calabrò

2022

JCM

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“…Most of the clinical forms of childhood obesity are due to unhealthy eating habits, low physical fitness, high sedentary behavior, and poor sleep standards [ 4 , 5 ]. The prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity and its complications represent crucial objectives [ 6 ] and can reduce the costs that the National Health System (NHS) will have to bear for the care and assistance of patients with obesity-associated diseases in adulthood [ 7 ].…”

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“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having deep health, social and economic consequences. Among that, sedentary lifestyle and calorie intake increase have become considerably more prevalent because children often found “refuge” in food: not only to fight boredom, but also to vent frustration of many stationary days at home [ 4 , 11 , 12 ]. This is especially true for the first wave of the pandemic (March 2020) in which the lockdown resulted in the closure of schools in attendance and group sports activities, and where individual physical activity restrictions were particularly harsh [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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“…This is especially true for the first wave of the pandemic (March 2020) in which the lockdown resulted in the closure of schools in attendance and group sports activities, and where individual physical activity restrictions were particularly harsh [ 13 , 14 ]. Even if the problem was immediately raised by the Italian NHS, which, in agreement with CREA (Center for Food and Nutrition Research), promptly issued recommendations [ 4 ], the increase in childhood obesity during COVID-19 lockdown was unavoidable in Italy [ 11 , 12 , 15 , 16 , 17 ].…”

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Obesity and Lifestyle—A Report from Italy

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During the COVID-19 lockdown, especially in the first wave of pandemic (March 2020), sedentary lifestyle and calorie intake increase in children became considerably more prevalent. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate changes in children’s weights and nutritional habits during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. In this cross-sectional observational study, for 3 years, as part of the corporate wellness program (2019–2021) in Emilia Romagna region of Italy, anthropometric data of Ferrari car company employers’ children were collected, analyzed, and compared. Moreover, at the visit of November 2020, performed after the first wave of the pandemic with the most rigorous lockdown rules in Italy, a questionnaire on nutritional and lifestyle habits was administered. We evaluated 307 children (163 M, 10.1 ± 2.3 mean aged in 2019). A significant increase in BMI percentile in 2020 (65.2) compared to 2019 (49.2) was observed; it was confirmed, albeit slightly decreased, in 2021 (64.5). About one-third of participants reported an increase in consumption of fatty condiments and more than half report an increase in consumption of junk food. Levels of physical activity were still high during the COVID-19 lockdown, while sleeping time was significantly reduced. Our findings alert us to the importance of carefully monitoring eating behaviors in young to avoid the adoption of unhealthy food habits and prevent childhood obesity, especially during the period of COVID-19 lockdown.

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“…In patients with HF, the implementation of a guideline-based medical therapy reportedly reduced the incidence of cardiac deaths, but the rate of rehospitalization due to HF has not declined [ 3 ]. On the other hand, exercise therapy has been reported to be effective in various kinds of disease, including mental disorders and infectious diseases [ 4 , 5 ]. Accumulating evidence has shown that comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation for HF improves exercise tolerability, prevents readmission [ 6 , 7 ], and improves long-term prognosis through multiple mechanisms, including suppression of neurohumoral factors and inflammatory cytokines [ 8 , 9 ] and improvement of skeletal muscle metabolic dysfunction [ 10 ].…”

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The Acute-Phase Ambulation Program Improves Clinical Outcome for Acute Heart Failure

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Kawai

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It remains unclear whether the acute-phase ambulation program (AAP) improves the prognosis of heart failure (HF) patients. We examined the association between the initiation of AAP and the prognosis of patients with worsening HF. We enrolled 560 consecutive patients admitted due to worsening HF from March 2019 to April 2021. Our hospital introduced AAP in May 2020, but we did not perform AAP until April 2020. We retrospectively compared cardiac events within 180 days after discharge between patients admitted before April 2020 (conventional group) and after May 2020 (AAP group). Primary endpoints were all-cause mortality and readmission for worsening HF. The Kaplan–Meier survival curves showed a significantly lower event rate in the AAP group in HF readmission or the primary endpoint (p = 0.020 and p = 0.014). The occurrence of the primary endpoint was associated with age, history of HF, systolic blood pressure, medications including renin–angiotensin system inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blocker, hemoglobin, NT-proBNP, and AAP participation. After adjusting for these parameters and sex, participation in AAP was an independent factor associated with a reduced risk of primary endpoint occurrence (hazard ratio of 0.62 (0.41–0.95), p = 0.028). The AAP for patients with acute HF might lead to improved short-term prognosis and should be considered for implementation.

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Physical and psychological reconditioning in long COVID syndrome: Results of an out-of-hospital exercise and psychological - based rehabilitation program

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

Psychological and Cognitive Effects of Long COVID: A Narrative Review Focusing on the Assessment and Rehabilitative Approach

Psychological and Cognitive Effects of Long COVID: A Narrative Review Focusing on the Assessment and Rehabilitative Approach

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Obesity and Lifestyle—A Report from Italy

The Acute-Phase Ambulation Program Improves Clinical Outcome for Acute Heart Failure

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