Sauna for Long Covid
NCT05931497 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 21
Last updated 2025-11-13
Summary
Research suggests that Whole Body Hyperthermia in a sauna-like environment can reduce symptoms related to post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), or Long Covid. The investigators aim to study the feasibility and treatment effect of this procedure for patients experiencing Long Covid symptoms.
Conditions
Interventions
- DEVICE
-
whole body hyperthermia
heat will be applied to the participant through a sauna to increase core body temperature
Sponsors & Collaborators
-
University of California, San Francisco
collaborator OTHER -
Massachusetts General Hospital
lead OTHER
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
- 2026-08-01
- Primary Completion
- 2026-09-30
- Completion
- 2026-12-01
Countries
- United States
Study Locations
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