In December 2019, new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) erupted in Wuhan (Hubei, China) and quickly spread from a single city to the entire country. It did not take long for this epidemic to spread to the world. After that, World Health Organization declared this epidemic disease as a pandemic. As of now, the number of coronavirus deaths increased to 108,281 worldwide. Total number of cases approached 1,800,000 according to the latest information. While the number of healed patients was highest in China, 77,525 people with COVID-19 recovered. COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory infectious disease that can cause respiratory, physical and psychological dysfunction in patients. Respiratory rehabilitation reduces the patient's symptoms of dyspnea, relieves anxiety and depression, reduces the patient's need to apply to the hospital, increases functional capacity and improves the patient's quality of life. Respiratory rehabilitation, according to the feedback from China, is very important for patients in the clinical treatment and recovery process after treatment. Rehabilitation of people with mild disease after discharge is mainly based on improving physical fitness and psychological adaptation. It is also aimed to gradually restore the individual's ability to the activity before the disease and return to the community as soon as possible. Individuals with COVID-19 who have respiratory and / or limb dysfunction and chronic disease after discharge should receive respiratory rehabilitation therapy. According to the current findings of the patients discharged from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and the clinical experience of patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients who recovered after discharge, COVID-19 patients may have physical fitness, dyspnea after activity, and muscle atrophy. (Including respiratory muscles and trunk muscles) It is recommended to use respiratory videos and booklets as the main method for respiratory rehabilitation in isolated patients at home. Telerehabilitation method is also a different recommendation option for rehabilitation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of exercises performed by telerehabilitation in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 followed at home. It is aimed to use an innovative model based on the digitally supported, home-based exercise program.
Other: Telerehabilitation
15 volunteers diagnosed with coronavirus will be included in experimental group. An online exercise program has been created for individuals who will participate in the study. This program is planned to continue 3-4 days a week, in a 30-minute session and for 6 weeks. Treatment sessions will include breathing exercises, posture exercises, peripheral muscle exercises and light aerobic exercises. Individuals were asked to participate in the research via telerehabilitation connection system and were told that they would do their exercises with a physiotherapist.
Other: exercise brochure
15 volunteers diagnosed with coronavirus will be included in control group.The same exercises will be given to the control group as a brochure and they will be asked to do it for 6 weeks.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Having been diagnosed with COVID-19,
- Having been diagnosed in the last 1 week,
- Being between the ages of 18-70,
- Patients who continue to be followed at home
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hospitalization patients
- Having a serious cognitive impairment
- Having serious hearing and vision problems
Istinye University
İstanbul, Turkey