NCT05516836

Addressing Post-COVID-19 Musculoskeletal Symptoms

Addressing Post-COVID-19 Musculoskeletal Symptoms Through Telemedicine

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Europea de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study will be to evaluate the effect of a rehabilitation program on the improvement of patients with post-COVID-19 musculoskeletal symptoms, as well as to quantify the impact of telemedicine that evaluates the evolution of pain, functionality, and quality of life.

Detailed description

A randomized clinical trial will be conducted in 100 patients with post-COVID-19 musculoskeletal symptoms who will undergo a multicomponent rehabilitation program, together with an intervention and a follow-up using programmed telemedicine sessions. Data will be collected on the improvement of functional capacity and quality of life, in addition to assessing the evolution of musculoskeletal symptomatology, as well as pain and psychological variables. The telemedicine sessions will improve user adherence and follow-up, and the results are expected to be disseminated to the scientific community during and after the end of the study.

Conditions

• Telemedicine
• Musculoskeletal Disease
• SARS-CoV-2
• Pain
• COVID-19
• Exercise

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Multicomponent exercise program	Each exercise session will have a duration of forty minutes in which the thirty minutes of intervallic work will be distributed as follows: twenty seconds until reaching 60% of their maximum load in the first seven sessions, adding five watts each day until reaching 80% of their maximum load in the fourteen sessions and seventy seconds of rest at 20% of their maximum load. At the end of the sessions, strengthening exercises will be performed with elastic bands, adapting their resistance according to the characteristics of the patients, of the lower limbs and of the upper limbs. Individualized respiratory physiotherapy exercises (diaphragmatic stimulation, positive expiratory pressure exercises, alveolar retraining and strengthening of the inspiratory musculature) will also be performed.
OTHER	Tele-health primary care rehabilitation program	A once a week telemedicine session will be carried out with the case group only before the face-to-face sessions, consisting of education, respiratory exercise, mobility and stretching, giving them a place to provide feedback and re-evaluate patients mid-treatment and will be aimed at assessing improvement and improving therapeutic adherence.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-20
• Primary completion: 2023-12-20
• Completion: 2024-09-20
• First posted: 2022-08-26
• Last updated: 2025-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain