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Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID
While COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally, its lasting effects on the health and well-being of entire populations are just becoming clear. As many as 30% of those diagnosed with COVID-19 report continuing health-related problems, regardless of the severity of the initial infection. Given...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34820152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21649561211056597 |
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description | While COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally, its lasting effects on the health and well-being of entire populations are just becoming clear. As many as 30% of those diagnosed with COVID-19 report continuing health-related problems, regardless of the severity of the initial infection. Given the infection rate in the world, that translates to between 5.4 and 17.9 million globally; about 700 000 in the US. The syndrome goes by many names; here we call it “long COVID.” Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, including serious organ system effects such as pulmonary fibrosis, myocarditis, new diabetes diagnoses, stroke, and other cerebrovascular events. They also experience ongoing pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction. We suggest here that these patients require an integrative health approach, one that combines traditional medical management, non-pharmacological approaches, and behavior and lifestyle changes. Such an approach has been shown to be beneficial in other chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and post-Lyme disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-86069682021-11-23 Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID Roth, Alan Chan, Pan San Jonas, Wayne Glob Adv Health Med Whole Health – Feature Article While COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally, its lasting effects on the health and well-being of entire populations are just becoming clear. As many as 30% of those diagnosed with COVID-19 report continuing health-related problems, regardless of the severity of the initial infection. Given the infection rate in the world, that translates to between 5.4 and 17.9 million globally; about 700 000 in the US. The syndrome goes by many names; here we call it “long COVID.” Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, including serious organ system effects such as pulmonary fibrosis, myocarditis, new diabetes diagnoses, stroke, and other cerebrovascular events. They also experience ongoing pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction. We suggest here that these patients require an integrative health approach, one that combines traditional medical management, non-pharmacological approaches, and behavior and lifestyle changes. Such an approach has been shown to be beneficial in other chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and post-Lyme disease. SAGE Publications 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8606968/ /pubmed/34820152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21649561211056597 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Whole Health – Feature Article Roth, Alan Chan, Pan San Jonas, Wayne Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title | Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title_full | Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title_fullStr | Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title_full_unstemmed | Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title_short | Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID |
title_sort | addressing the long covid crisis: integrative health and long covid |
topic | Whole Health – Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34820152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21649561211056597 |
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