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To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome

Mobility-impaired persons, either very old or younger but suffering with systemic neuromuscular disorders or chronic organ failures, spend small amounts of time for daily physical activity, contributing to aggravate their poor mobility by resting muscle atrophy. Sooner or later the limitations to th...

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Autores principales: Carraro, Ugo, Albertin, Giovanna, Martini, Alessandro, Giuriati, Walter, Guidolin, Diego, Masiero, Stefano, Kern, Helmut, Hofer, Christian, Marcante, Andrea, Ravara, Barbara
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Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8056156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33709653
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2021.9641
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author Carraro, Ugo
Albertin, Giovanna
Martini, Alessandro
Giuriati, Walter
Guidolin, Diego
Masiero, Stefano
Kern, Helmut
Hofer, Christian
Marcante, Andrea
Ravara, Barbara
author_facet Carraro, Ugo
Albertin, Giovanna
Martini, Alessandro
Giuriati, Walter
Guidolin, Diego
Masiero, Stefano
Kern, Helmut
Hofer, Christian
Marcante, Andrea
Ravara, Barbara
author_sort Carraro, Ugo
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description Mobility-impaired persons, either very old or younger but suffering with systemic neuromuscular disorders or chronic organ failures, spend small amounts of time for daily physical activity, contributing to aggravate their poor mobility by resting muscle atrophy. Sooner or later the limitations to their mobility enforce them to bed and to more frequent hospitalizations. We include among these patients at risk those who are negative for the SARS-COV-2 infection, but suffering with COVID-19 pandemic syndrome. Beside managements of psychological symptoms, it is mandatory to offer to the last group physical rehabilitation approaches easy to learn and self-managed at home. Inspired by the proven capability to recover skeletal muscle contractility and strength by home-based volitional exercises and functional electrical stimulation, we suggest also for chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome a 10–20 min long daily routine of easy and safe physical exercises that can activate, and recover from weakness, the main 400 skeletal muscles used for every-day mobility activities. Persons can do many of them in bed (Full-Body in-Bed Gym), and hospitalized patients can learn this light training before leaving the hospital. It is, indeed, an extension of well-established cardiovascular-respiratory rehabilitation training performed after heavy surgical interventions. Blood pressure readings, monitored before and after daily routine, demonstrate a transient decrease in peripheral resistance due to increased blood flow of many muscles. Continued regularly, Full-Body in-Bed Gym may help maintaining independence of frail people, including those suffering with the COVID-19 pandemic syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-80561562021-04-30 To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome Carraro, Ugo Albertin, Giovanna Martini, Alessandro Giuriati, Walter Guidolin, Diego Masiero, Stefano Kern, Helmut Hofer, Christian Marcante, Andrea Ravara, Barbara Eur J Transl Myol Article Mobility-impaired persons, either very old or younger but suffering with systemic neuromuscular disorders or chronic organ failures, spend small amounts of time for daily physical activity, contributing to aggravate their poor mobility by resting muscle atrophy. Sooner or later the limitations to their mobility enforce them to bed and to more frequent hospitalizations. We include among these patients at risk those who are negative for the SARS-COV-2 infection, but suffering with COVID-19 pandemic syndrome. Beside managements of psychological symptoms, it is mandatory to offer to the last group physical rehabilitation approaches easy to learn and self-managed at home. Inspired by the proven capability to recover skeletal muscle contractility and strength by home-based volitional exercises and functional electrical stimulation, we suggest also for chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome a 10–20 min long daily routine of easy and safe physical exercises that can activate, and recover from weakness, the main 400 skeletal muscles used for every-day mobility activities. Persons can do many of them in bed (Full-Body in-Bed Gym), and hospitalized patients can learn this light training before leaving the hospital. It is, indeed, an extension of well-established cardiovascular-respiratory rehabilitation training performed after heavy surgical interventions. Blood pressure readings, monitored before and after daily routine, demonstrate a transient decrease in peripheral resistance due to increased blood flow of many muscles. Continued regularly, Full-Body in-Bed Gym may help maintaining independence of frail people, including those suffering with the COVID-19 pandemic syndrome. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2021-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8056156/ /pubmed/33709653 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2021.9641 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (by-nc 4.0) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Carraro, Ugo
Albertin, Giovanna
Martini, Alessandro
Giuriati, Walter
Guidolin, Diego
Masiero, Stefano
Kern, Helmut
Hofer, Christian
Marcante, Andrea
Ravara, Barbara
To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title_full To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title_fullStr To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title_full_unstemmed To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title_short To contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by Full-Body In-Bed Gym in chronic COVID-19 pandemic syndrome
title_sort to contrast and reverse skeletal muscle weakness by full-body in-bed gym in chronic covid-19 pandemic syndrome
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8056156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33709653
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2021.9641
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