Physiotherapy Management of a Middle-Aged Adult Male with Severe Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease-19: A Case Report

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Chhaya V. Verma Suresh K. Patel Gayatri S. Jere Rakesh Bhadade

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Chhaya V. Verma
Physiotherapy School & Centre, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Maharashtra, India

A B S T R A C T

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has affected people of various age groups with symptoms ranging from asymptomatic or mild to severe respiratory failure, with mild symptoms requiring little or no medical intervention whereas severe symptoms requiring hospitalisation and prompt medical management. The following case report illustrates about recovery of a patient with severe symptoms of COVID-19 in a COVID dedicated tertiary care hospital run by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Physiotherapy has long been a part of multidisciplinary team in management of patients with severe respiratory illnesses. The report mainly presents about the Physiotherapy management undertaken for the above-mentioned patient parallelly to the Medical management aiding in recovery of the patient.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Jul 2020
Accepted: Thu 30, Jul 2020
Published: Thu 06, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Chhaya V. Verma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.CEI.2020.02.07