Geriatric rehabilitation elderly people suffering after pneumonia COVID-19: emphasis on outpatient and home stage

Abstract

The emergence and spread of COVID-19 infection has set health professionals the task of providing recovery and rehabilitation programs after pneumonia for patients of different age groups.The paper presents the survey results of older people after COVID-19-related pneumonia before and after one- and two-component medical rehabilitation programs.The rationality of using the proposed hypobaric chamber adaptation technique for elderly patients at the outpatient and home stages of medical rehabilitation, the effectiveness of which increased in combination with the appointment of cytoflavin, is shown.An increase of Stange test was found when combined hypobaric adaptation and kinesiotaping of the posterior arch of the diaphragm in order to create a breathing pattern in the examined group of patients. The conducted stabilometric study showed an increase in the stability of older patients after a course of hypobaric chamber adaptation.