Therapy For Long Covid

Long Covid.

Long COVID has been defined as symptoms that, following COVID-19, continue for 12 weeks or more. It’s estimated that 1 in 10 of people who contract COVID will experience symptoms for a period of 12 weeks or longer. Anyone can experience long COVID, regardless of how fit and healthy they were beforehand and how poorly they were when they had COVID-19.

Long COVID is considered a multi-system disease and there are as many as 200 listed symptoms which can occur in variable combinations. They can appear in predictable and unpredictable patterns of flare-ups and remissions.

Two of the most common symptoms after six months are feelings of exhaustion and what’s known as post exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE). (This is when you’ve done something like gardening or going for a stroll and the symptoms flare up, leaving you feeling exhausted.) Other symptoms are problems with your memory and concentration. This is sometimes called ‘brain fog’.

Therapy for Long-covid The Mind-Body Guide

Here are some of the other common symptoms that you might recognise:

+ Shortness of breath
+ Chest pain or tightness
+ Difficulties sleeping (insomnia)
+ Heart palpitations
+ Dizziness
+ Muscle pain
+ Joint pain
+ Depression and anxiety
+ Tinnitus and earaches
+ Feeling sick, diarrhoea
+ Stomach aches and loss of appetite
+ Rashes
+ Cough, headaches, sore throat
+ Changes to sense of smell or taste

Many of the symptoms listed for long-COVID are also those that can be experienced with anxiety – so it’s also worth taking that into consideration.

By addressing how you are thinking and feeling, I’ll help you develop an awareness of how, in your body, psychological events and physical sensations are so closely connected. Without this awareness, we can get stuck in a vicious loop which I call ‘the cycle of suffering’.

As The Mind & Body Guide, my aim is to explore these connections to help you gain insight into yourself. This could be looking at present problems or those that are more deeply seated: things you’ve been told or events you’ve experienced which have shaped who you are now.

I have decades of experience in health care. Years spent working as a senior physiotherapist in the NHS. I’ve taught Pilates to hundreds of people. And I’m a qualified psychotherapist with a suite of therapy skills to draw on.

My approach to therapy is to help you to understand yourself mentally and physically. Then, working together, we can plot your pathway to a healthier, happier life.

The Mind-Body Guide
Therapy for the whole of you

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