Long covid: Online rehabilitation can improve quality of life, study reports

A group online rehabilitation programme including gentle exercise and mental health support can improve quality of life for adults with long covid, a trial 1 published in The BMJ has reported.The eight week Regain programme led to sustained improvements in fatigue, pain, and depression compared with usual care in people who had been admitted to hospital with their initial covid infection, researchers found.Gordon McGregor, professor of clinical exercise physiology and rehabilitation at the University of Warwick, who led the clinical trial, told a media briefing that there was "no precedent" for how best to treat people with long covid, which was a complex and diverse condition or group of conditions.