Potential Prophylactic and Therapeutic Effects of Respiratory Physiotherapy for COVID-19.

• DOI: 10.23750/abm.v92i1.10289
• Publication Date: 2020-11-10
• Authors: Narges Shakerian; Razieh Mofateh; Amene Saghazadeh; Niloofar Rezaei; Nima Rezaei
• Keywords: Dyspnea; Reviews/Focus on; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Humans; Physical Therapy Modalities

New coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has succeeded in surprising the world with infecting more than 12 million people and claiming 560,000 lives only six months. COVID-19 is associated a spectrum of respiratory symptoms, especially dyspnea. Patients who progress to severe or critical condition display peripheral posterior lung lesions bilaterally. These patients require admission intensive care unit (ICU); therefore, they are prone ICU-related complications during after recovery. Respiratory physiotherapy techniques, particular, active might help improvement airway clearance capacity addition reduction breathing effort disease. In parallel, it lead prevention disabilities, resulting from infection extended hospitalization recovered COVID-19. This supports both as prophylactic therapeutic strategy for