Telerehabilitation for Patients Diagnosed With Coronavirus
Condition: Telerehabilitation; Coronavirus
MeSH terms: Coronavirus Infections
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      In December 2019, new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) erupted in Wuhan (Hubei, China) and
      quickly spread from a single city to the entire country. It did not take long for this
      epidemic to spread to the world. After that, World Health Organization declared this epidemic
      disease as a pandemic. As of now, the number of coronavirus deaths increased to 108,281
      worldwide. Total number of cases approached 1,800,000 according to the latest information.
      While the number of healed patients was highest in China, 77,525 people with COVID-19
      recovered.

      COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory infectious disease that can cause respiratory,
      physical and psychological dysfunction in patients. Respiratory rehabilitation reduces the
      patient's symptoms of dyspnea, relieves anxiety and depression, reduces the patient's need to
      apply to the hospital, increases functional capacity and improves the patient's quality of
      life. Respiratory rehabilitation, according to the feedback from China, is very important for
      patients in the clinical treatment and recovery process after treatment. Rehabilitation of
      people with mild disease after discharge is mainly based on improving physical fitness and
      psychological adaptation. It is also aimed to gradually restore the individual's ability to
      the activity before the disease and return to the community as soon as possible. Individuals
      with COVID-19 who have respiratory and / or limb dysfunction and chronic disease after
      discharge should receive respiratory rehabilitation therapy. According to the current
      findings of the patients discharged from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) and
      Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and the clinical experience of patients with Acute
      Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients who recovered after discharge, COVID-19
      patients may have physical fitness, dyspnea after activity, and muscle atrophy. (Including
      respiratory muscles and trunk muscles) It is recommended to use respiratory videos and
      booklets as the main method for respiratory rehabilitation in isolated patients at home.
      Telerehabilitation method is also a different recommendation option for rehabilitation.

      The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of exercises performed by
      telerehabilitation in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 followed at home. It is aimed to use
      an innovative model based on the digitally supported, home-based exercise program.
    


Intervention name(s): Telerehabilitation; exercise brochure
Intervention type(s): Other; Other
Intervention description(s): 15 volunteers diagnosed with coronavirus will be included in experimental group. An online exercise program has been created for individuals who will participate in the study. This program is planned to continue 3-4 days a week, in a 30-minute session and for 6 weeks. Treatment sessions will include breathing exercises, posture exercises, peripheral muscle exercises and light aerobic exercises. Individuals were asked to participate in the research via telerehabilitation connection system and were told that they would do their exercises with a physiotherapist.; 15 volunteers diagnosed with coronavirus will be included in control group.The same exercises will be given to the control group as a brochure and they will be asked to do it for 6 weeks.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary purpose: Treatment
Keywords: Exercise; Breathing exercise; physiotherapy