Psychological therapy may be the only treatment to successfully cure lingering ‘Long Covid’ symptoms, landmark new research in the BMJ has suggested. The Mail has more.
Canadian scientists found talking therapies and physical and mental rehabilitation “probably improve symptoms” among those struck down with the virus.
But there was “no compelling evidence” that certain drugs, dietary supplements or oxygen therapy could effectively treat the phenomenon now better known as Long Covid.
U.S. officials suggest one in 10 people who catch the virus will develop Long Covid, while around two million people in the U.K. are reported to live with the condition, including 112,000 children.
Symptoms have long been thought to be wide-ranging, from fatigue and breathlessness to muscle and joint pain.
In the study, researchers from McMaster University in Ontario assessed the findings of 24 separate trials involving 3,695 patients with the condition.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the evidence “suggests that a programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) probably reduces fatigue and improves cognitive function in patients with Long Covid”.
They also found “intermittent” aerobic exercise three to five times a week for four to six weeks, “probably improves physical function” and recovery.
However, they acknowledged that both CBT and physical and mental health rehabilitation “may be challenging”.
This is because patients may “express concerns about the safety and efficacy of these approaches” given it “implies that Long Covid is not ‘real’ but ‘psychological'”.
The scientists, however, acknowledged the study had some limitations including ‘possibly missing eligible trials’.
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Well what a surprise a healthy lifestyle and reducing stress, improves health.
Are you sure?
Long Rona does not exist.
Longer Stupid does.
Longest pharma poisoning does.
Evidence suggests that CBT, sometimes known as having a chat with friends, and aerobic exercise, otherwise known as going for a walk or to the gym, improves recovery.
So for the lard arses and work shy looking to skive the answer is simple – turn off the benefits or the sick pay.
Some grifters find a profit anywhere. It’s about time we put a lid on this crap. Twenty four separate trials have been conducted just to realise the obvious. How many man hours is that? What earthly good have these studies produced? And what use to mankind has this labour produced? Certainly not milked a cow or dug a spud or built a car.
Waste of space.
Stopping paying people for worklessness would be very effective.
Hunger is a great incentive.
A psychologist friend of mine says Long Covid is entirely a mental problem and that she has not treated one single Long Covid patient who did not have other serious mental problems and was now just happy to find there was one more condition that matched the symptoms and that could thus excuse them from getting off their backside and fixing their life.
Highly plausible, anorexia was nothing until it started getting publicity, now it is like a vampire due to lavish funding.
A much more accurate name for ‘long covid’ is ‘electromagnetic radiation sensitivity syndrome’… at least there’s a plethora of empirical evidence for the latter.
Empipical evidence aka conspiracy theory.
I’d love to know what the percentage-jabbed is for the long-covid cohort vs the rest of the population.
Long Rona is Long poison as I told one idiot to his face when he moaned that he was ‘tired’ after the shots.
The virus did not exist.
Long Rona does not exist.
Damage from taking poisons you can’t spell or pronounce does exist.
“U.S. officials suggest one in 10 people who catch the virus will develop Long Covid, while around two million people in the U.K. are reported to live with the condition, including 112,000 children.”
My bullshit detector is going off. Pretty much everyone I know claims to have had “covid” (courtesy of sniffles and a plastic stick up the nose). I don’t know a single person among them who claims to have “long covid”.
If US officials are right and it’s 1 in 10 then it should be 6 or 7 million with “long covid” in the UK given that everyone in the UK has presumably “caught the virus” (whatever the hell that means).
I don’t seem to be on of the “1 in 10” – I suppose if “covid” exists then I have “caught it”, and I feel marvellous.
Also from McMaster University – probably the rest is complete BS
Can’t they just wear a mask and keep away from the rest of us?
A friend of mine was told by her GP having found she was suffering from pericarditus that it was due to Long Covid. It was not worth wasting a nice lunch to explain that having taken all the boosters – the last one just after a does of Covid – might have something to do with it. A physician who appeared on John Campbell’s youtube is looking for evidence that Long Covid is Long Covax.
In other words “it’s just in your head mate”
Long vaccine however is real!
Is this new news?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2796097?guestAccessKey=4e438d50-c1ee-4fd6-ba40-0ab9ee8c45e6&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=090722
Some “Long Covid” cases are genuine harmful side-effects from the Vaccine, not the Coronahoax. But I suspect that many patients claiming “Long Covid” are just using it as a Skiver’s Charter.
If psychiatry is the ‘cure’, the disease was present long before the CoVid scam.
We still have loonies wearing masks and getting mRNA jabs.