Addressing Post-COVID-19 Musculoskeletal Symptoms

"Each exercise session will have a duration of forty minutes in which the thirty minutes of intervallic work will be distributed as follows: twenty seconds until reaching 60% of their maximum load in the first seven sessions, adding five watts each day until reaching 80% of their maximum load in the fourteen sessions and seventy seconds of rest at 20% of their maximum load.~At the end of the sessions, strengthening exercises will be performed with elastic bands, adapting their resistance according to the characteristics of the patients, of the lower limbs and of the upper limbs. Individualized respiratory physiotherapy exercises (diaphragmatic stimulation, positive expiratory pressure exercises, alveolar retraining and strengthening of the inspiratory musculature) will also be performed."

A once a week telemedicine session will be carried out with the case group only before the face-to-face sessions, consisting of education, respiratory exercise, mobility and stretching, giving them a place to provide feedback and re-evaluate patients mid-treatment and will be aimed at assessing improvement and improving therapeutic adherence.