Exercise in an Overweight Patient with Covid-19: A Case Study

Amir Hossein Ahmadi Hekmatikar, Mahdieh Molanouri Shamsi, Zahra Sadat Zabhi Ashkazari and Katsuhiko Suzuki
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Amir Hossein Ahmadi Hekmatikar: Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14117-13116, Iran
Mahdieh Molanouri Shamsi: Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14117-13116, Iran
Zahra Sadat Zabhi Ashkazari: Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14496-14535, Iran
Katsuhiko Suzuki: Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15, Mikajima, Tokorozawa 359-1192, Japan

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-6

Abstract: Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a dangerous infectious disease that is easily transmitted and which is called an acute respiratory syndrome. With the spread of the coronavirus around the world and its epidemic among humans, we are losing many humans. The long process of treatment in hospitalized patients who are receiving intensive care and medication is associated with physical weakness. It has been suggested that lifelong exercise can create a safe margin for a person that allows them to avoid becoming infected with the virus. The current study was conducted to assess the effects of low-intensity exercise and breathing exercises on cardiorespiratory responses and physical status in an overweight 20-year-old woman infected with COVID-19. The patient was referred to Hazrat Ali Ibn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan. The patient had initial symptoms of coronavirus including weakness, shortness of breath, fever, and chills, and the initial tests confirmed that the person was infected with the coronavirus. Although COVID-19 reduces respiration and blood oxygen and severely reduces movement and physical activity, low-intensity rehabilitation and breathing exercises along with medication can improve blood oxygen status, resting heart rate, blood pressure, and hand power status in patients and possibly speeding up the healing process. The results of the present study show that low-intensity exercise and breathing exercises in patients with COVID-19, whose disease severity is mild to moderate, can be performed safely under the supervision of their physicians to prevent the disease process.

Keywords: coronavirus; exercise; patient with COVID-19; training; SARS-CoV-2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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