Tele-rehabilitation Program After Hospitalization for COVID-19

"TR is a specific remote tele rehabilitation program on exercise activity managed by the physiotherapist (PT) at home, this is the experimental group. PT will explain the rehabilitation program at hospital discharge by the use of a brochure and videos. TR will include an early exercise re-conditioning program \[aerobic exercise at the free body (with or without tools), cyclette and walking with a pedometer\] comprising 20 sessions of 60 minutes/day, 6 out of 7 days to be performed at home, for one month after discharge. The sessions will be self-managed by the patients 4 times a week and an expert PT will remotely supervise 2 times a week through a dedicated platform. The program will be progressively incremental and divided into 4 different levels of intensity (0- 3).~In addition to this specific rehabilitation program, the patients will be followed by a nurse tutor once a day for two weeks and once a week for a further two weeks in a program of Telesurveillance."

"The patients of this group will perform a usual Telesurveillance and will be considered as control group.~All patients, at discharge from the hospital, will be provided with a finger pulse oximeter and a dedicated application (app) on their personal smartphone and will be advised on free physical activity to be performed at home. The nurse will check through scheduled calls (once a day for two weeks and once a week for a further two weeks) the patient's health condition, vital parameters and drugs administration. Patients will be able to contact the nurse at each time, in case of specific need, out of the scheduled call, 7/7 days.~A follow up by phone will be planned by nurse tutor at 2 months from the end of the study."