Scary long Covid numbers: Can physiotherapy help?
Clinic offers courses
Created: 05/04/2022, 23:04
By: Katarina Amtmann
Those affected by long-Covid often suffer from breathing problems or exhaustion (archive image).
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Long Covid can also occur after the mild course of a corona infection.
In a Bavarian clinic there are now physiotherapy sessions that are supposed to help.
Memmingen – People who have had a mild course of the corona virus can also suffer from Long Covid.
Fatigue, for example, can persist, as can memory problems.
Late effects make life difficult for those affected.
Long Covid: Klinikum Memmingen offers physiotherapy courses
The Memmingen Clinic, around 85 kilometers from Augsburg, is now offering physiotherapy courses for long Covid.
This is reported by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
.
Since Tuesday (May 3rd), the physiotherapy department of the hospital has been offering two exercise groups for long-Covid patients.
Long Covid: Typical Symptoms
breathing problems
difficulty concentrating
memory problems
That's why breathing exercises and memory training are on the program, as Andrea Mynarek from the clinic
told
BR .
Long Covid: exhaustion, fatigue and lung damage
The program is also about self-help.
Some long-Covid sufferers would need to learn coping strategies so that they can deal with the lasting effects of corona disease, such as permanent lung damage.
Some also suffer from coordination difficulties and a constant feeling of exhaustion - a barrier to returning to work.
The rehabilitation work has shown that physiotherapy can often help - but only slowly, as Mynarek
told
BR .
It is often important to exchange ideas with other patients.
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Long Covid Fatigue Syndrome: “You are trapped in your own body”
Corona News: Alarming numbers on Long Covid
In severe cases of Long Covid, patients can be exhausted to the point of being bedridden, reports the portal, citing the University Hospital in Ulm.
Accordingly, not only patients with a severe course of corona are affected.
Instead, months later, people who only had mild cold symptoms can suddenly suffer from serious long-term effects.
This can also be seen at the Memmingen Clinic: Mynarek reported to BR
that
it was often people who only had mild symptoms who later had to struggle with long-term consequences.
The current figures are alarming: While it was still assumed in December that 15 percent of those infected with corona would have long-term consequences, the current figure is 40 percent.
Long Covid: Over 40 percent of those infected with corona affected?
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) also quotes from studies, some of which speak of more than 40 percent of those affected with long-term consequences.
People who did not have to go to the hospital because of their infection.
Long Covid course in Memmingen
Tuesday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m
Wednesday, May 4, 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m
A medication prescription is required to participate
Registration and questions: (0 83 31) 70 20 42
According to BR, the weekly group lessons each comprise a total of ten units that build on one another.
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