Our new paper is out! 🧪 Improving Quality in Adult Long Covid Services: Findings from the LOCOMOTION Quality Improvement Collaborative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The protracted form of COVID-19 known as ‘long covid’ was first described in 2020. Its symptoms, course and prognosis vary widely; some patients have …
Would love the TL;DR on long covid: "Research into the causes of long covid has progressed rapidly and produced numerous hypotheses involving viral persistence or reactivation, immune dysregulation, autonomic dysfunction, endothelial inflammation and immune-thrombosis, and altered gut microbiome"
Thank you 🙏🏼 This research is just out too, in case of interest. I note that the results are based on 190 schools out of the @ 32,160 in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...@jneill.bsky.social
It's very encouraging to see that participating clinics stopped using graded exercise and switched to pacing instead. Do you think this marks a shift in understanding the difference between PEM and deconditioning?
Thank you. The refocus on pacing is definitely helpful. We need so desperately to progress to some treatment, even trial and error is better than none.