Significance of Precautionary Measures, Rehabilitative Care and Physiotherapy Approach during Pandemic of COVID-19

Ashish W. Bele*, Tejasvini Fating, Nivedita Singh, Mohd. Irshad Qureshi, Pratik Phansopkar, Rakesh Krishna Kovela

Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

An outbreak of the Novel Corona Virus disease in 2019 is a health disaster for the world. COVID-19 is an acute respiratory disease associated with coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 named coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), coronavirus is interspecies, and can also be transmitted from human to human that has triggered a global pandemic over the past 3months. At present, there is no specific treatment exclusively available to treat COVID-19 patients. This condition is managed by symptomatic treatment for symptoms like cough, cold, fever, and other respiratory-related ailments although over a period of time since this pandemic is started patients are showing varied symptoms that are not respiratory in nature including headache, loss of taste and smell sensation, body aches and fatigue. Prominent symptoms are managed by best supportive care while secondary symptoms are treated by medicines. As no specific treatment is available at present as said prevention is better than cure must followed. A good immunity can protect us, so prevention and rehabilitation is an essential way to cope up with the dangerous situation of COVID -19 diseases.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Pandemic, Prevention, Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy