Long COVID continues to be a moving target -- continuously evolving and still surprising doctors and patients who have sometimes incapacitating long-term symptoms.
continues to be a moving target -- continuously evolving and still surprising doctors and patients who have sometimes incapacitating long-term symptoms.
Assessing their previous and current care also helps to direct their ongoing management, says Zijian Chen, MD, medical director of the Center for Post-COVID Care at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.Anything that we can do to help prevent people from being critically ill or being hospitalized with COVID-19 is helpful to prevent long COVID, says Abramoff, who is also director of the long COVID clinic at the University of Pennsylvania.
But the limited number of long COVID clinics can mean some people are unable to get to therapists trained on the needs of patients with lingering COVID symptoms. Educating community physical and occupational therapists is one solution.Specific numbers aren’t really available, Baratta says. It's essential to set realistic recovery expectations, and that not everyone will return to 100% of their pre-COVID functioning, she says.
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