Running and Long Covid
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 2.5 years
- Published
- Undated
Summary
Credits pacing, graded exercise and physiotherapy. Gthants was ill 2.5y with severe long COVID and reports a partial improvement. Couch-to-5K thread; a replier reports full recovery.
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What they credit
Credits Graded exercise, Pacing, Graded exercise / graded activity, Pacing and the energy envelope.
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