What is wrong with Physiotherapists exactly?

What's their business with COVID-19 ?

Why are they included in Management of COVID patients?

Dey won massage COVID again?
Leeemaoooo

Ogbeni relax, take a seat and Open your mind
Learn and UNLEARN

A thread.......

Like any other respiratory infectious disease, COVID presents with similar respiratory symptoms and even much more including dry cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, and others like fever, fatigue, sore throat

And unfortunately, there is still no specific antiviral

Treatment for COVID-19 infection, only supportive therapies including respiratory care for affected patients.
You should also know that approximately 15% of individuals with COVID-19 develop moderate to severe disease and require hospitalisation

and oxygen support, with a further 5% who require admission to an Intensive Care Unit and supportive therapies including intubation and ventilation.

The secretion load of people with COVID-19 is low so they don't usually require invasive or intensive

airway clearance techniques
Physiotherapy support is more focused on non-invasive ventilation support measures and then the rehabilitation phase

Once stable and no longer in the acute stage , if indicated the main goal in respiratory physiotherapy is to mobilise secretions and

ease the work of breathing. Interventions may include techniques such as positioning, autogenic drainage, deep breathing exercises, breath stacking, active cycle of breathing mobilisation and manual techniques (e.g. percussion, vibrations, assisted cough) to aid sputum

expectoration

Physiotherapy is an important intervention that prevents and mitigates the adverse effects of prolonged bed rest and mechanical ventilation during critical illness. Rehabilitation delivered by the physiotherapist is tailored to patient

needs and depends on the conscious state, psychological status and physical strength of the patient.
The PT ensures rehabilitation interventions to survivors of critical illness myopathies associated with COVID-19 in order to enable a functional return to home

Now they're back home, what next?

With complications like reduced exercise tolerance and Physical fitness, patients will need a progressive yet personalized exercise regimen depending on individual factors.....etc

Sha let me stop here
Do your research...confirm and correct

By the way

I made this back then in school. It trains static balance and coordination for lowerlimbs before progressing to more dynamic exs. The other one is for upperlimb coordination. They are both gradually progressed. Used em couple of times too

What do you think ?