Rehabilitation in the COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 53219
Special Issue Editor
2. Department for Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Health, University Witten-Herdecke, 58455 Witten, Germany
Interests: COPD; interstitial lung diseases; asthma; pulmonary rehabilitation; exercise training in pulmonary diseases; sleep medicine; obstructive sleep apnea
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 infections lead to severe complications in a proportion of patients, which may require intensive medical therapies. These therapies on the one hand, and the long immobilization and the complications of the disease and the therapies on the other, sometimes lead to considerable restrictions in terms of quality of life and performance. This is the domain of rehabilitation, primarily pneumological or internal medicine rehabilitation, but not only this—because of the many complications related to the disease, patients are also cared for in neurological, cardiological, or even musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
This Special Issue aims to collect interesting data in the context of post-COVID-19 patients admitted for rehabilitation. This is not only related to outcome data but also intervention studies, exciting case reports, or reviews. Retrospective analysis is also of interest as well as innovative approaches in this field.
Considering the short period of time available to us so far, there are already a lot of different data, but most of them are from the acute medical field. This also represents a good chance for the rehabilitative field to present its know-how and its successes, but also its problems. Critical analyses are just as important here as success stories.
In this sense, I am looking forward to your contributions and an interesting scientific discourse.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in JCM.
Dr. Marc Spielmanns
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rehabilitation
- COVID-19
- exercise training
- neurology
- pulmonary medicine
- cardiology
- musculoscelettal
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