Whole-Body Vibration Exercise: A Possible Intervention in the Management of Post COVID-19 Complications?
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Abstract
COVID-19 infection frequently leaves the infected subjects with impairments of multi-organs, the so-called post COVID-19 syndrome, which needs to be adequately addressed. The perspective of this narrative review is to verify the possible role of whole-body vibration exercise in the post-COVID-19 rehabilitation of these patients. Publications reporting the use of WBV exercises to counteract fatigue, muscle weakness, neurological manifestations, pain, quality of life, quality of sleep, lung commitments, and mental conditions in different clinical conditions were selected. Considering all the findings described in the current review, it seems that WBV exercise might be potentially useful and effective in the rehabilitation of post COVID-19 syndrome, being able to positively influence fatigue, muscle weakness, and quality of life without any side-effects. Controlled studies are mandatory to define the best protocols to be proposed, which need to be tailored to the individual and clinical characteristics.
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OpenAlex topics: Effects of Vibration on Health · Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 · Urban Green Space and Health
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Laboratório de Vibrações Mecânicas e Práticas Integrativas, Departamento de Biofísica e Biometria, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes and Policlínica Piquet Carneiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, Brazil
Faculdade Bezerra de Araújo, Rio de Janeiro 23052-090, Brazil
Pós-Graduação em Fisiopatologia Clínica e Experimental, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, Brazil
Medicina Laboratorial e Tecnologia Forense, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20950-003, Brazil
Departamento de Fisioterapia, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40110-902, Brazil
Centro Integrado de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Saúde- CIPq/Saúde, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri-UFVJM, Diamantina 39100-000, Brazil
Departamento de Fisioterapia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Fisioterapia da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88085-350, Brazil
MATIM, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, 51100 Reims, France
Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Experimental Laboratory for Auxo-Endocrinological Research & Division of Auxology and Metabolic Diseases, 28824 Piancavallo (VB), Italy
Escola Superior de Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 4200-253 Porto, Portugal
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