After months of rehabilitative therapy at a specialized clinic in the nearby capital Washington, Hedrick was finally able to play in the waves with her five grandkids this summer. The MedStar Covid Recovery Program that she turned to is part of a new wave of clinics specifically treating patients suffering from long Covid — a post-infection syndrome that can affect nearly every system in the body, causing sometimes debilitating symptoms. “The clinic gave me hope that life was going to go on,” Hedrick said. It’s very clearly not in people’s heads,” said Hana Akselrod, co-director of the Covid-19 Recovery Clinic with the George Washington University health system. ‘‘Scary’Rachel Curley, a 32-year-old Washington resident and MedStar patient, also found moving to part-time work at her policy advocacy job helped her battle long Covid.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 31, 2022 16:52 UTC