Rehabilitation Therapy for Post COVID 19 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Post-COVID-19 Syndrome
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Post-COVID-19 Syndrome focused on measuring chronic fatigue, graded exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- 60 post covid patients (6 months recovery after last negative PCR diagnosis)
Patients will be selected using the Oxford diagnostic criteria for CFS which required disabling fatigue to be the primary problem, in the absence of an exclusionary medical or psychiatric diagnosis. Patients will fulfil the following criteria for CFS :
- fatigue as a principal symptom.
- fatigue definite onset that is not life long.
- fatigue should have been present for a minimum of 6 months during which it was present for more than 50% of the time.
- Other symptoms may be present, particularly myalgia, mood and sleep disturbance.
- Both sexs will be included
- Body mass index range from (18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2)
- Patients' age range will be 18 to 34 years old .
- Presence of significant fatigue since COVID-19.
- Able to understand and willing to sign a written informed consent document.
- Willing and able to complete study procedures.
Exclusion Criteria:
- On medications that would influence exercise performance such as beta blockers or antiretroviral therapy
- Enrolled in another interventional clinical research trial
- Pregnancy
- Significant hepatic or renal dysfunction
- History or cardiac condition as determined by National Institutes of Health (NIH) cardiology to be unsafe for exercise participation (e.g. ischemic heart disease, right- or left-sided heart failure, cor pulmonale or pulmonary hypertension, dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or non-idiopathic cardiomyopathy)
- Patients with a current diagnosis of schizophrenia, manic depressive illness, substance abuse, eating disorder or proven organic brain disease.
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Group A
Group B
will receive the post covid protocol conventional treatment in form of medication and 24 sessions of combined rehabilitation exercise program in the form of Graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Patients will attend two sessions per week for 12 weeks. Sessions will be taken at Modern university for technology and information physical therapy rehabilitation center . A home exercise program will be prescribed on at least five days a week. Patients will be contacted by phone daily for the 12 weeks treatment sessions, for following up the home exercise program.
will receive the post covid protocol conventional treatment in form of medication and specialist medical care provided by doctors with specialist experience in CFS. All patients will be given a leaflet explaining the illness and the nature of this treatment. Treatment will consist of an explanation of chronic fatigue syndrome, generic advice such as to avoid extremes of activity and rest, specific advice on self-help and symptomatic pharmacotherapy (especially for insomnia, pain and mood) .