Lessons From Myalgic Encephalomyelitis for Long COVID

Course overview

Long COVID is an emerging challenge to individual patients, to society, and to rehabilitation clinicians because it is difficult to recognize and manage effectively. Certain subtypes of long COVID resemble another condition, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which also commonly results after a systemic infection. Insights from the clinical management of ME may be used to guide initial recognition of long COVID. This course presents an overview of important symptomatic and functional similarities between ME and long COVID, as well as a model for clinical management of long COVID based on our collective understanding of ME. Insights from people living with long COVID are provided to include patients' perspectives as a prominent part of the course material.