Importance of Physiotherapy in COVID-19: A Recommendation

Importance of Physiotherapy in COVID-19: A Recommendation - Background: Coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19-is the 3rd coronavirus infectious disease happening in 20 years was initially defined in Asia, later Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), & Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). COVID-19 illness expands globally, intensive care unit (ICU) specialists, health care management, authority, plan creators, and researchers need to brace for sudden increase of high volume in critical patients. Physiotherapists (PTs), mostly respiratory PTs, are healthcare specialists involved in managing and caring for the population of these patients, & play important part in conservative care and treatment, changes in posture, functional mobility and while invasive mechanical ventilator support is being weaned. Objective: To determine the recent research evidences for the importance of physiotherapist during COVID-19 pandemic. Method: This recommendation includes all COVID-19 related articles to physiotherapy to provide the role of physiotherapy as evidence. Searching done by Google scholar, PEDro. We used terms like- COVID-19, Physiotherapy, Role of physiotherapy, and physiotherapy management. Conclusion: This recommendation to provide a quick respiratory physiotherapist reference guide to set up treatments for the management in acute stages of patients suffering from severe COVID-19.