Ongoing ‘immune injuries’ might cause persistent breathlessness after COVID-19: Long-lasting immune activity in the airways might be the cause of persistent breathlessness following COVID-19. This is according to a new study of 38 people who were previously hospitalised with severe COVID-19. The results, published in Immunity, suggest these patients have an altered landscape of immune […]
Handheld breathing device could reduce breathlessness and improve physical fitness in long COVID patients: New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme […]
Women with long COVID experience heart rate irregularities in response to physical exertion, and this has the potential to constrain not only exercise tolerance but free-living physical activity. In perspective of the greater prevalence of age-related physical disability among women, compared to men, these findings highlight a need for targeted rehabilitation programmes to manage the consequences of persistent heart and […]
Patients Day 2021: Collaboration is key – three heart charities join forces to help prevent leading causes of death and disability by launching virtual Patient Educational Days as alternative to “Dr Google” Three charities are collaborating to launch virtual educational days for patients and the public to draw attention to two of the worlds leadings […]
Long COVID symptoms rarely persisted beyond 12 weeks in children and adolescents, unlike adults. But more studies were required to investigate the risk and impact of long COVID in young people to help guide vaccine policy decisions in Australia, according to a review led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). The review, published in the Pediatric […]
New research published in The Journal of Physiology found that otherwise healthy young people diagnosed with COVID-19, regardless of their symptom severity, have problems with their nervous system when compared with healthy control subjects. Specifically, the system which oversees the fight-or-flight response, the sympathetic nervous system, seems to be abnormal (overactive in some instances and […]
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At least two million people in the UK have experienced ongoing debilitating symptoms following COVID-19 infection, known as ‘Long COVID’. However, only half the UK workforce can access occupational health support to enable their return to work by meeting the challenges Long COVID presents. A recent report found that 5% of people with Long COVID […]
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One in two adults in the UK suffer with some form of hair or scalp concern – a shocking statistic, shedding light on a new and concerning impact of the third national lockdown, which has seen Trichologists prohibited from practising (with the exception of online consultations). Unlike other allied health professionals – such as physiotherapists […]