The Musculoskeletal Involvement After Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Infection

Copyright © 2022 dos Santos, Sigoli, Bragança and Cornachione..

COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has been drastically affecting the daily lives of millions of people. COVID-19 is described as a multiorgan disease that affects not only the respiratory tract of infected individuals, but it has considerable effects on the musculoskeletal system, causing excessive fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, muscle weakness and skeletal muscle damage. These symptoms can persist for months, decreasing the quality of life of numerous individuals. Curiously, most studies in the scientific literature focus on patients who were hospitalized due to SARS-CoV-2 infection and little is known about the mechanism of action of COVID-19 on skeletal muscles, especially of individuals who had the mild to moderate forms of the disease (non-hospitalized patients). In this review, we focus on the current knowledge about the musculoskeletal system in COVID-19, highlighting the lack of researches investigating the mild to moderate cases of infection and pointing out why it is essential to care for these patients. Also, we will comment about the need of more experimental data to assess the musculoskeletal manifestations on COVID-19-positive individuals.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in physiology - 13(2022), Seite 813924

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dos Santos, Patty K [VerfasserIn]
Sigoli, Emilly [VerfasserIn]
Bragança, Lorenna J G [VerfasserIn]
Cornachione, Anabelle S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Long COVID
Mild to moderate COVID-19
Muscle symptoms
Musculoskeletal system
Non-hospitalized individuals
Review
SARS-CoV-2

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 01.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fphys.2022.813924

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM340213698