Early rehabilitation can prevent long COVID pulmonary complications

ABSTRACT

The long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are only now beginning to be defined, but it is already known that the disease can have direct and indirect impacts mainly on the cardiorespiratory system. The aim of the narrative review is to derive concepts for the treatment based on the experience gained from the early rehabilitation in the treatment of patients with COVID-19, and to prevent long COVID respiratory complications in connection with currently available sources and experiences. An online literature search was conducted June 2020 to January 2021 using Medline, PubMed, Google scholar and manual search to retrieve meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized trials, guidelines, recommendations, state of the art, and other peer-reviewed studies investigating the relationship between COVID-19 and early Rehabilitation/mobilization or exercises. Thirty-four articles met the established criteria and the main findings were summarized and described, including indication, contraindication and recommendation for early rehabilitation and exercises prescription. after a detailed observation this review study can predict that long COVID pulmonary complications can be prevented in worth of early rehabilitation.