{"id":986,"date":"2021-07-22T19:39:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=986"},"modified":"2021-07-22T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:39:22","slug":"returning-to-physical-activity-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Returning to physical activity after covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: David Salman, academic clinical fellow in primary care<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-1\">1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-2\">2<\/a>, &nbsp;Dane Vishnubala, consultant in sports and exercise medicine and honorary senior lecturer in primary care and public health<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-2\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-3\">3<\/a>, &nbsp;Peter Le Feuvre, military physiotherapist and research fellow in complex trauma rehabilitation<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-1\">1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-5\">5<\/a>, &nbsp;Thomas Beaney, academic clinical fellow in primary care<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-2\">2<\/a>, &nbsp;Jonathan Korgaonkar, consultant in sports and exercise medicine<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-4\">4<\/a>, &nbsp;Azeem Majeed, professor of primary care and public health<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-2\">2<\/a>, &nbsp;Alison H McGregor, professor of musculoskeletal biodynamics<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721#aff-1\">1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you need to know<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"list-1\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li>Risk stratify patients before recommending a return to physical activity in people who have had covid-19. Patients with ongoing symptoms or who had severe covid-19 or a history suggestive of cardiac involvement need further clinical assessment<\/li><li>Only return to exercise after at least seven days free of symptoms, and begin with at least two weeks of minimal exertion<\/li><li>Use daily self monitoring to track progress, including when to seek further help<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.m4721<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: David Salman, academic clinical fellow in primary care12, &nbsp;Dane Vishnubala, consultant in sports and exercise medicine and honorary senior lecturer in primary care and public health23, &nbsp;Peter Le Feuvre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-standards-of-care","category-wellness-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}