Effects of Respiratory Muscle Training in Patients With Post COVID-19

Summary

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak first appeared in Wuhan, China's Hubei Province in December 2019 and has quickly turned into a worldwide pandemic. As of 28 July 2020, 16,465,707 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes respiratory, physical and psychological dysfunction in patients.

Severe respiratory symptoms have been observed in COVID-19 patients. Fever (88.7%), cough (57.6%) and shortness of breath (45.6%) were observed in an average of 81% of the patients. However, patients with comorbidities such as hypertension and diabetes, usually over 65 years of age, may have very serious pulmonary sequelae of the infection. Due to lung fibrosis as a result of pneumonia in COVID-19, some patients experience severe respiratory failure requiring pulmonary rehabilitation. In the study of Complaints such as peripheral and respiratory muscle weakness, shortness of breath on exertion, and decreased exercise capacity may be seen in patients who have had COVID-19. In addition, while anxiety and depression increase, quality of life may decrease. In a study conducted with geriatric patients who had COVID-19 and were discharged; Peripheral and respiratory muscle strengthening exercises were given to the patient after discharge, and as a result of the study, it was found that the patient's walking distance and cough strength increased, while the complaints of shortness of breath, anxiety and depression decreased significantly. As a result of this; We can say that while shortness of breath, anxiety-depression and complications are reduced with the pulmonary rehabilitation program in patients with pulmonary involvement who have had COVID-19, participation in daily life activities and quality of life increase.

Telerehabilitation is an emerging method that aims to provide rehabilitation to patients and clinicians by reducing barriers such as distance, time and cost by using information and communication technologies. Telerehabilitation enables patients who cannot access rehabilitation due to geographic, economic or physical disabilities to benefit from rehabilitation services. At the same time, the importance of social distance is emphasized for the continuation of the pandemic process and protection from the highly contagious COVID-19 infection.

Conditions

• Covid19

Interventions

OTHER

Exercise training group

A regular advanced exercise program was given and followed.

OTHER

Control training group

Basic exercises was given at the beginning and did the same exercises

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gazi University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Deran OSKAY, Prof · Gazi University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-03-01

Primary Completion

2021-07-18

Completion

2021-07-18

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations