Effectiveness and tolerance of exercise interventions for long COVID: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the effectiveness of exercise interventions to improve long COVID symptoms and the tolerance of exercise interventions among people with long COVID.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Medline via EBSCOhost, Embase via OVID and CENTRAL via the Cochrane Library up to 28 February 2023.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Inclusion criteria were: (1) participants with long COVID, as defined by study authors; (2) random assignment to either an exercise intervention or a comparison group and (3) a quantitative measure of at least 1 of the 12 core long COVID outcomes. Exclusion criteria were: (1) signs or symptoms not reasonably attributable to prior SARS-CoV-2 infection; (2) pre-exposure or postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19 or the

SUBMITTER: McDowell CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11931970 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature