Long Covid Clinic
Recover from Long Covid with Resync Physiotherapy.
Long Covid clinics are healthcare facilities that are specifically designed to provide care and treatment to people who are experiencing ongoing symptoms of COVID-19, also known as "long COVID" or "post-acute COVID-19 syndrome." These symptoms can include fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, body aches, and other persistent symptoms that can last for weeks or even months after the initial infection. Long Covid clinics are typically staffed by doctors and other healthcare professionals who are specially trained in the management and treatment of long COVID, and they can provide a range of services such as diagnostic testing, medications, and rehabilitation to help patients manage their symptoms and recover from the effects of the virus.
Long covid clinics are shutting down all over Ireland as funding is being diverted to other areas of healthcare. Unfortunately this is poor timing for patients who are suffering from symptoms of long covid in Dublin. Some patients opt to look for information on how to recover post covid from a hospital but some people can be waiting weeks or months for an appointment.
Long Covid refers to symptoms experienced at least a month beyond the initial acute infection.
- Manage your energy levels
- Improve your fitness
- Improve your concentration
- Return to full health
Long COVID symptoms
- Fatigue
- Poor concentration
- Respiratory and breathing difficulty
- Elevated heart rate at rest or with exercise
- Chest pains
Long COVID Clinic Rehabilitation
Recovery from post covid take place in three phases.
- Understanding your fatigue- simple advise on what is draining your mental energy
- Managing your energy levels- putting in place a structured and progressive approach to energy management and prevent "Crashes"
- Improving your respiratory and cardiovascular health - increasing your health and fitness with a low level exercise regime to retrain your cardiovascular system and increasing your muscular strength.
Why do we still need a Long COVID Clinic
What we have found is COVID has a profound effect on a person's energy levels. Fatigue symptoms can be managed once patients are educated on environments and activities that drain your concentration. The effect that covid has cognitively is very similar to concussion and therefore we look for ways to progressively return you to work exercises and day to day tasks.
Meet Diarmuid.
Diarmuid is the Principal Physiotherapist here at ReSync Physiotherapy. He has a wealth of experience in both private practice settings, in UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In professional sport Diarmuuid was part of the medical team for the New Zealand Tag rugby and the Emirate’s International Rugby 7’s Tournaments.
Diarmuid qualified with a MSc in Physiotherapy in 2009 from RGU Aberdeen, Scotland. After completing 2 years of rotations with NHS Lothian in Edinburgh he progressed to employment in private practice in Ireland and New Zealand. Diarmuid returned from 4 years in New Zealand in 2015, where he gained invaluable experience working in The University Physio and with many sports teams in the area while he also achieved qualifications in both Orthopaedic Manual Therapy (Curtain University, Perth, Australia) and Sports Medicine (University of Auckland).
