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Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Outcomes in People with Persisting Symptoms after COVID-19 Infection Boever, Lis Primani, Francesca Hund-Georgiadis, Margret Maguire, Clare Catherine OLOS.swiss, OLOS 2024 Issued: 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z Collected: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z/2022-07-31T00:00:00Z Created: 2024-04-09T11:42:23Z Updated: 2024-07-03T10:14:15Z Accepted: 2024-07-02T10:57:08Z doi:10.34914/olos:4iar6apqqjh5pdsxnlgpchvlpm https://olos.swiss/portal//archives/6bdc3d9e-5975-4da6-91ad-37457d340f44 ark:/99999/fk94iar6apqqjh5pdsxnlgpchvlpm Post COVID-19 condition Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Physical capacity Quality of life Purpose: Rehabilitation centers responded to emerging post-COVID-19 symptoms by implementing specific programmes. This study aims to describe physiotherapy outcomes, interdisciplinary intervention adherence, and post-intervention changes in physiotherapy outcomes. Materials and method: A retrospective analysis was conducted. The analysis describes routine data in patients from a post-COVID programme who underwent physiotherapy (PT) screening between April 2021 and July 2022. Physiotherapy outcomes were a 6-minute walk test (6MWT), a 1-minute sit-to-stand test (1STST) and an assessment of quality of life (EQ-5D-5L). Data were compared to norm values, and adherence to interventions was described. Results: After 9 months, for 172 patients (70% female, mean age 44), values for 6MWT, 1STST, EQ-5D-5L VAS and index were below normal reference values. Interdisciplinary interventions were initiated for 151 patients, with variable adherence. Energy management education was most indicated. Among 72 patients analysed for post-intervention changes in PT outcomes, test results indicated improvement, in accordance with 67% subjectively classifying their health condition as improving. Conclusion: Patients seeking treatment for post COVID-19 condition seem to have objective functional deficits, aligning with subjective complaints. They might need individualized treatment programmes with non-standardized duration. Further investigations and continuation of care are necessary to ensure the quality of care. [9e9acfd7-e539-4f3f-b787-9a2313733fba] BFH - Physiotherapy Stalder, Désirée Pfyffer, Samuel Scheuner, Marc Lüdi, Chantal Dataset application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet text/xml PUBLIC https://www.dlcm.ch/access-level/final BLUE https://www.dlcm.ch/data-tag Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ LICENSE https://www.dlcm.ch/data-use-policy