Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention in Healthcare Workers Affected by Long COVID: Effects on Systemic and Dysfunctional Breathing Symptoms, Manual Dexterity and HRV
After one month of home intervention, an overall improvement in long-COVID symptoms was observed: confusion/cognitive impairment, chest pain, asthenia, headache and dizziness decreased significantly, while only a small increase in manual dexterity was found, and no relevant changes in cardiac parasympathetic modulation were observed.
Authors
- Marcella Mauro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-3448)
- Maurizio Polano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6101-1382)
- Francesca Larese Filon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-0417)
- Nicoletta Bestiaco
- Elisa Zulian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2224-6837)
Institutions
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Biomedicines
- Published
- 2024-10-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12102254
- Primary Topic
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00