Fascial Tissue Response To Manual Therapy: Implications In Long Covid Rehabilitation
30 patients around the world
Available in Brazil
Participants reported to have long COVID, of both sexes, aged between 20 and 80 years, from
the community, outpatient clinics and hospitals will be evaluated. The treatment of
participants will be carried out at the CEFID-UDESC Physiotherapy School Clinic, where they
will undergo assessment of the biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of tissues, postural
control, pain and quality of life. For normality analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk test will be
applied, and according to the distribution of the data, parametric or non-parametric tests
will be used. Pre- and post-assessment and treatment data will be compared using descriptive
statistics and Student's t-test with a significance level of p=0.05 for parametric data or
Wilcoxon for non-parametric data.