Covid-19 &The Role Of Massage In Recovery.

According to current studies, the time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately 2 weeks and is 3-6 weeks for patients with severe or critical disease. Recovering patients with mild symptoms become low-risk around 10 days after they first fall ill. One journal revealed that traces of the virus could persist in the body for up to two weeks after symptoms had vanished; as the patients were no longer coughing or sneezing. Other sources shown that the virus survived in one Chinese patient’s respiratory tract for 37 days – above the average of 24 days for those with critical disease status.

Two negative swab tests on consecutive days are considered as the all-clear – meaning self-isolation can end and a patient can theoretically begin having a contact with others, including massage. Massage will speed up your recovery process and it is a wonderful medium to get rid of tightness from all the coughing, sneezing and muscular pain.

Pneumonia caused by Covid-19 may be particularly severe. Coronavirus pneumonia tend to affect all of the lungs, instead of just small parts. During recovery phase, massage that includes percussive or tapotement techniques may be helpful in breaking up and moving mucus into the bronchial tubes. Other benefits include reduction of stress and relaxation of chronically short or tight muscles that are involved in breathing. It is often the case with asthmatics that the inspiration muscles become chronically tight so treatment aims are to reduce any restrictions or tightness in those muscles. Having work done to diaphragm, intercostals (muscles in between the ribs) and neck can greatly improve breathing.