The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection has resulted, in addition to the well-knownacute symptoms, in the emergence of a plethora of persistent, diffuse and heterogeneoussymptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive dysfunction among others,that have come to be called persistent COVID. Patients have reported that physicalactivity, stress and sleep disturbances often trigger exacerbations of their symptomsrelated by some authors to the so-called Post Exertional Malaise (PEM) characteristic ofMyalgic Encephalomyelitis. Similarly, by analogy with other pathologies, it has beenhypothesized that optimal exercise prescription would benefit these people withpersistent COVID-19 symptoms but in practice, the rehabilitation of these patients runsthe risk of collapsing respiratory and physical rehabilitation services.This is why COPERIA proposes the construction of a platform for respiratory, cardiac andmuscular telerehabilitation, to compare with face-to-face rehabilitation treatment and totry to predict the influence of physical activity in the prediction of PEM.
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Other: COPERIA-REHAB
After the randomization of the patient there will be some preliminary sessions where the
means of self-monitoring training and the Borg 1/10 effort scale will be explained and
training videos will be shown. Doubts will also be answered.
Afterwards, training will start through the COPERIA-REHAB platform, which will last 8
weeks (6 days per week).
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 and ≤70 years of age.
- Patients with a diagnosis according to WHO criteria of persistent COVID-19 until
03/28/2022
- Patients with a Post Covid Functional Status (PCFS) ≥ 2.
- Patients who present a need for physical rehabilitation and agree to perform it.
- Patients with capacity to consent and who agree to participate in the study.
- Patients who know how to use Smartphone and/or Tablet and have at least one of these
devices.
- Patients who have access to the rehabilitation tools at home or are willing to go to
the gyms proposed in the study to perform the rehabilitation exercises.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Minors or persons judicially incapacitated.
- Previous neurological or psychiatric pathology involving neuropsychological
compromise.
- Active Covid19 infection.
- Home oxygen therapy > 16 hours or home Cpap- Bipap.
- Previous diagnosis of arrhythmia or blockage.
- Previous coronary pathology.
- Decompensated renal or metabolic disease.
- Signs or symptoms of unknown cardiac disease.
- Undergoing another physical or cognitive rehabilitation process at the time of
inclusion.
- Patients who do not agree to participate in the study.
Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS) - Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro
Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
School of Telecommunication Engineering (University of Vigo)
Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Ourense
Ourense, Spain
S.S. Computer Engineering (University of Vigo)
Ourense, Spain
Alejandro García Caballero, MD
988 38 55 00
alejandro.alberto.garcia.caballero@sergas.es
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