Rehabilitation in long COVID-19: A mini-review, 2022, Swarnakar and Yadav

We have been experiencing multiple waves of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. With these unprecedented waves, we have entered into an era of ‘new normal’. This pandemic has enforced us to rethink the very basics of childhood learning: Habits, health etiquette, and hygiene. Rehabilitation has immense importance during this pandemic considering a few aspects. Multidisciplinary COVID-19 rehabilitation clinics are essential to address the demand. The equitable distribution of COVID-19 rehabilitation services for differently-abled individuals during the pandemic is an important aspect. Rehabilitation needs identification and further studies on various rehabilitation interventions are among the key unmet future research needs.

Open access, https://www.wjgnet.com/2222-0682/full/v12/i4/235.htm

 

I've rarely seen a more blatant solution-in-search-of-a-problem-send-money-our-way. The clinics are widely considered useless and it doesn't even matter. They're easy jobs with no pressure where no one expects anything so I guess the professionals like them but they like them even though they are clearly useless and that's just absurd in itself.

 

Unfortunately, no mention of PEM. While awareness of PEM is spreading, it unfortunately didn't reach this group of researchers.

 

About the journal's publisher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baishideng_Publishing_Group

"Baishideng Publishing Group was listed on the 'original' Beall's List of potential predatory open access publishers.[5] The publisher has persisted in being listed at a successor to Beall's List, Stop Predatory Journals.[6] BPG was named in a 2019 cover story of The Walrus as a "junk publisher" alongside Scientific Research Publishing, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, and OMICS International.[7]"


Edit: Still worthwhile to track relevant research and reviews also in dubious journals of course, just perhaps not worth to let us be distracted from criticizing equally bad work published by the more prestigious journals?