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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gloeckl, Rainer
• Leitl, Daniela
• Schneeberger, Tessa
• Jarosch, Inga
• Koczulla, Andreas Rembert

Titel

Rehabilitative interventions in patients with persistent post COVID-19 symptoms-a review of recent advances and future perspectives

Ist Teil von

• European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2023-06

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has not only caused millions of deaths but left also millions of people with persistent symptoms behind. These long-term COVID-19 sequelae cause a considerable burden on individuals´ health, healthcare systems, and economies worldwide given the high rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Therefore, rehabilitative interventions and strategies are needed to counteract the post COVID-19 sequelae. The importance of rehabilitation for patients with persistent COVID-19 symptoms has been recently also highlighted in a Call for Action by the World Health Organisation. Based on previously published research, but also in line with clinical experience, COVID-19 is not one specific disease but rather presents in different phenotypes that vary in their pathophysiological mechanisms, symptomatic manifestations, and potential interventional approaches. This review provides a proposal for differentiating post COVID-19 patients in non-organ-specific phenotypes that may help clinicians to evaluate patients and to plan therapeutic options. Furthermore, we present current unmet needs and suggest a potential pathway for a specific rehabilitation approach in people with persistent post-COVID symptoms.