Rehabilitation of a patient with post-covid syndrome: A clinical case

Abstract

After the COVID-19 pandemic, medicine faces the need to rehabilitate patients with post-COVID syndrome, asthenia, cognitive impairment, and low physical tolerance.
 We present a clinical case of a patient at the 3d stage of rehabilitation. The rehabilitation diagnosis according to the ICF and the rehabilitation programme are presented.
 After COVID-19, the 52-year old patient suffered from general weakness and forgetfulness, she dropped objects (e.g., broke dishes), could fall, had an impaired sense of smell and occasional shortness of breath. She could not attend to herself and could not leave her home without help. The multidisciplinary rehabilitation course helped the patient to cope with all domestic tasks after 3 weeks, with the psychological support from her husband. The rehabilitation results according to the corresponding estimation scales show an improvement of the physical tolerance, cognitive functions and asthenia. Cerebrolysin was included into the rehabilitation programme to increase the patient's potential for rehabilitation.
 The addition of Cerebrolysin to the rehabilitation programme has speeded up the recovery process and increased the effectiveness of non-medical treatments.