Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID, 2021, Roth et al.

[Milo]

Addressing the Long COVID Crisis: Integrative Health and Long COVID.

Abstract

While COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally, its lasting effects on the health and well-being of entire populations are just becoming clear.

As many as 30% of those diagnosed with COVID-19 report continuing health-related problems, regardless of the severity of the initial infection.

Given the infection rate in the world, that translates to between 5.4 and 17.9 million globally; about 700 000 in the US.

The syndrome goes by many names; here we call it "long COVID." Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, including serious organ system effects such as pulmonary fibrosis, myocarditis, new diabetes diagnoses, stroke, and other cerebrovascular events.

They also experience ongoing pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction.

We suggest here that these patients require an integrative health approach, one that combines traditional medical management, non-pharmacological approaches, and behavior and lifestyle changes.

Such an approach has been shown to be beneficial in other chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and post-Lyme disease.

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Keywords: COVID; Integrative medicine; chronic fatigue syndrome; complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); diet; exercise; immune; integrative health; long COVID; mindfulness; post-COVID; stress reduction.

 

[Trish]

It looks like this is basically an advertisement for an integrative medicine clinic in New York that serves a multi ethic community many of whom can't access or afford standard medical clinics.
Here's the bit about what they do for patients with long covid.
I've split it into shorter paragraphs for easy reading.

At the Jamaica clinic, these patients see an interdisciplinary team composed of a primary care physician, pulmonologist, mental health provider, and other specialists.

The team uses a combination of symptomatic management and self-care to help patients recover, combining conventional medicine with an individualized integrative health care plan based on the patient’s symptoms, life goals, medical needs, and lifestyles.

Patients first receive an assessment from a primary care physician that incorporates the use of the HOPE Note (Healing Oriented Practices and Environments) to provide a more holistic evaluation (Figure 2). The HOPE Note is a patient-guided process designed to identify the values and goals in the patient’s life and review their personal determinants of healing. It addresses physical, behavioral, psychosocial, and spiritual components.

Working through the questions with the patient engages them in shared decision-making about their health and healing, identifying their life goals and putting them front and center in the care plan. Patients also receive any physical assessments, including imaging, pulmonary, and lab tests, their symptoms warrant, as well as a mental health screen.

Treatment plans are based not just on the patient’s symptoms, but on an overall approach to healing. That includes an anti-inflammatory diet and a mindfulness plan, such as yoga, journaling, meditation, guided imagery, and breathing exercises, as well physical exercise. The breathing exercises not only help with anxiety and stress, but can improve the breathlessness post-COVID patients often feel, particularly those who were left with pulmonary fibrosis. 31

 

[Ash]

On balance I feel the word “Goals” is not of any usefulness at all in this context.

Might even count as it’s very own teeny tiny

 

[Milo]

It looks like this is basically an advertisement for an integrative medicine clinic in New York that serves a multi ethic community many of whom can't access or afford standard medical clinics.
Here's the bit about what they do for patients with long covid.
I've split it into shorter paragraphs for easy reading.

It may be some kind of advertisement but know tat similar approaches in other areas of the world also focus on a BPS approach, patient education and self- management because there is no treatment at the moment of Long-Covid, like for ME.

Like @Ash my eyes stopped at ‘life goals’. As if people needed coaching. i always refer to other diseases when that kind of stuff is being put forward, and see how that flies. Cancer patient: what are your life goals? Lupus patient: what is your life goal? Diabetes patient: what is your life goal. That makes me feel dirty. Keep my life goals, my spirituality (or lack of), my childhood out of health care.