- Almost half of the 400 patients who were admitted for covid-19 in Östergötland during the first Corona wave last spring had clear problems several months later – in some cases the problems still persist.
- These are concentration difficulties, memory loss and extreme fatigue, shows research from the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University Hospital in Linköping, which will be published shortly.
- “We still see that the vast majority of patients are still in an improvement phase,” says Wolfram Antepohl, operations manager.
The most common injuries, according to the study
- Difficulty with memory and concentration – so-called cognitive disorders which are also called brain fatigue.
- Extreme physical fatigue. Often due to impaired lung function and weakened muscles.
- Problems with breathing due to the lung tissue being affected.
- In short, the rehabilitation is about giving the patient an understanding and knowledge of what happened to the body and adapting life after that. To adapt the training to what the body can handle and to give it time.
Source: ICELAND NEWS