Exercise-based rehabilitation has been found to improve the short-term exercise capacity of 181 people with post-COVID syndrome (who had been hospitalised with COVID).
The study, published in the European Respiratory Journal on 26 February also discovered significant immune benefits of face-to-face rehabilitation.
In the trial, researchers funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) compared two exercise-based rehabilitation interventions. The eight week program of individually prescribed exercise and education were either face-to-face or remote (delivered through a website).