Article in Physiobranche
New insights and experiences in the physiotherapy treatment of people with COVID-19 have led to a revision of the KNGF position. This revised position is applied in many initiatives, but in order to further improve care for people with Post-COVID complaints who are stuck in their recovery process, we can still learn lessons. What lessons and what changes are still needed? We present it to a Post-COVID patient and several professionals.
Occupational therapist Wytze van Walsum immediately stirs things up with a very provocative statement: 'During a conference, a rehabilitation physician stated that recovery care is poor. And he also explained why. Less than ten percent is interdisciplinary and everyone does something different. Measuring whether something works is therefore not possible.' That is putting it very strongly, says Willem Pieters, initiator of this discussion and Medical Advisor at C-support, but things did go wrong in the beginning: 'At C-support we see many people, especially from the first wave, with less positive experiences. Too little was known at the time. As a result, there was insufficient attention for the balance between resilience and burden, which is so important in post-infectious fatigue complaints. That is when patients get into even more trouble.'
