Effectiveness of Virtual Therapeutic Exercises in Improving the Physical and Mental Health among the Patients Recovering from COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Introduction: A novel coronavirus (COVID-19), caused a series of acute atypical respiratory syndrome termed as SARS CoV-2. It has a varying degrees of symptoms like headache, high fever, dizziness, generalized weakness, diarrhoea and vomiting. But primarily it affects the respiratory system causing breathlessness and sometimes may be fatal. People recovered from the illness had variety of physical and mental illness. Aims: To find the effectiveness of virtual therapeutic exercises and mindfulness programme among the subjects recovering from COVID-19. Materials and methods: A total number of 32 male subjects aged between (55 - 70) years were included in this study. The subjects were included based on the prescription of a medical officer/ Curved length of Aortic Knuckle (AKC), total length of Left Heart Border (LHBT) and Aortic Knuckle Index (AKI) were measured. Statistical analysis was carried out with the help of IBM-SPSS (IBM Corporation) and Microsoft Excel. Results: AKC and AKI were measured,and correlated with total lenght of LHBT. A positive correlation between AKC, AKI and LHBT was noted. Conclusion: Simple measurement of aortic knob in PA chest x-ray may help in predicting cardiovascular disorder. pulmonologist. The duration of the study was eight weeks. Fitness assessment scale, hamilton stress anxiety scale and modified respiratory assessment scale was used. The study was conducted in the Symbiosis Medical College for Women, Pune. Results: The statistical analyses were done using the SPSS software version 18 executed at a 95% confidence interval. A paired t-test was done to find the effectiveness of the therapeutic exercises. The level of significance in all tests was set to p < 0.05. Positive changes were observed in health-related fitness among the subjects. Conclusion: This study reports about finding that virtual therapeutic training also provides the best results in physical and mental health among the patients recovering from COVID-19.