Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma
Covid-19 disease is well documented and often the most common symptoms include myalgia and muscle fatigue. Approximately 10% of those infected complain of persistent fatigue even many months after the end of the acute phase of the disease. This gives rise to a condition different from the previous...
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Covid-19 disease is well documented and often the most common symptoms include myalgia and muscle fatigue. Approximately 10% of those infected complain of persistent fatigue even many months after the end of the acute phase of the disease. This gives rise to a condition different from the previous one and commonly known as 'post-acute COVID-19 syndrome' or simply Long-COVID. Although the origin of muscle fatigue is multifactorial, the state of prolonged fatigue observed in the Long-COVID syndrome suggests the existence of a possible state of atrophy or rather acute sarcopenia. Under these conditions, the use of physical activity programs can effectively counteract the state of atrophy underlying the fatigue phenomena observed. If this is also the situation during the Long-COVID, the muscular symptom should be positively influenced by the administration of programmed physical activity cycles. In fact, in patients with Long-COVID, the few published papers seem to indicate that patients who are physically active and who make an effort to engage in physical activity even during the illness have decreased duration and intensity of the illness. However, analysis of the studies in the literature also suggests that a small percentage of people with Long-COVID do not appear to benefit from the application of physical activity programs, so further studies on homogeneous samples are needed to provide a firm answer to the question: can planned physical activity help patients during the pathological course of Long-COVID?
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| spelling | doaj.art-646a4c18e8414c6b862c3235e28361852023-09-04T22:57:31ZengPAGEPress PublicationsEuropean Journal of Translational Myology2037-74522037-74602023-09-0110.4081/ejtm.2023.11639Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigmaFrancesco Coscia0Ester Sara Di Filippo 1Paola Virginia Gigliotti2Giorgio Fano Illic3Sports Medicine Service of the San Candido-Innichen and Brunico-Bruneck Hospitals, Bolzano-Bozen, San CandidoDepartment of Neuroscience Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy; IIM-Interuniversity Institute of Myology, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, ChietiLaboratory of Sport Physiology San Candido-Innichen, University of Perugia, San CandidoIIM-Interuniversity Institute of Myology, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy; Campus of Free University of Alcatraz, Free University of Alcatraz, Santa Cristina di Gubbio, Gubbio, Italy; A&C M-C Foundation for Translational Myology, Padova Covid-19 disease is well documented and often the most common symptoms include myalgia and muscle fatigue. Approximately 10% of those infected complain of persistent fatigue even many months after the end of the acute phase of the disease. This gives rise to a condition different from the previous one and commonly known as 'post-acute COVID-19 syndrome' or simply Long-COVID. Although the origin of muscle fatigue is multifactorial, the state of prolonged fatigue observed in the Long-COVID syndrome suggests the existence of a possible state of atrophy or rather acute sarcopenia. Under these conditions, the use of physical activity programs can effectively counteract the state of atrophy underlying the fatigue phenomena observed. If this is also the situation during the Long-COVID, the muscular symptom should be positively influenced by the administration of programmed physical activity cycles. In fact, in patients with Long-COVID, the few published papers seem to indicate that patients who are physically active and who make an effort to engage in physical activity even during the illness have decreased duration and intensity of the illness. However, analysis of the studies in the literature also suggests that a small percentage of people with Long-COVID do not appear to benefit from the application of physical activity programs, so further studies on homogeneous samples are needed to provide a firm answer to the question: can planned physical activity help patients during the pathological course of Long-COVID? https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/11639SARS-CoV-2muscle fatigueLong-COVID syndromephysical activityskeletal muscle |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Coscia Ester Sara Di Filippo Paola Virginia Gigliotti Giorgio Fano Illic Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma European Journal of Translational Myology SARS-CoV-2 muscle fatigue Long-COVID syndrome physical activity skeletal muscle |
| title | Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma |
| title_full | Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma |
| title_fullStr | Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma |
| title_short | Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma |
| title_sort | effect of physical activity on long covid fatigue an unsolved enigma |
| topic | SARS-CoV-2 muscle fatigue Long-COVID syndrome physical activity skeletal muscle |
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