"Many patients suffer from increased fatigue, residual shortness of breath, musculoskeletal pain and other symptoms after experiencing COVID-19. During the second wave of the epidemic, we received information from the Regional Hospital in Kolín that the head of medicine MUDr. Lukáš Cibulka uses a special modulation of laser radiation in the treatment of acute covid pneumonia patients at ICU. We have many years of experience with this type of laser radiation in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. When the laser works effectively in ICU patients and later in patients in the anaesthesiology and resuscitation department of the Kladno Regional Hospital, we proposed a treatment procedure for patients in the chronic stage, i.e. in the so-called post-covid syndrome. At the Faculty Rehabilitation Clinic THERAP TILIA, we have started to use this treatment procedure, which is achieving good results beyond expectations," says Prof. MUDr. Leoš Navrátil, CSc., MBA, dr. h. c., from the Department of Health Care Disciplines and Population Protection at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the CTU.
The duration of treatment for patients with post-covid syndrome is around 14 minutes per affected lung and it is necessary to continue the treatment for five consecutive days to initiate the pro-regenerative effect. The treatment with high-power laser therapy is followed by respiratory physiotherapy techniques and manual techniques for postural correction.
In addition to patients feeling subjectively better, the effectiveness of the therapy was also demonstrated by spirometric examination. Significant improvement was also diagnosed on lung X-rays as early as 3 to 4 weeks after starting treatment.
Ing. Aleš Příhoda from the Department of Health Care Disciplines and Population Protection, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, CTU adds: "When we started with post-covid treatment using laser therapy, we were the only ones in Prague and its surroundings. Nowadays, the number of medical facilities using this type of laser modulation for treatment has expanded considerably, and in addition to the hospitals in Kladno and Kolín, others are joining in. In the future, we would like to make information about the possibilities of this treatment more widely known to doctors and patients. Patients should go directly to the rehabilitation department, where we could help them effectively in a few weeks and they would not have to be treated for months with inhaled drugs.
Based on the experience from the Italian research centre ASA campus, we have expanded the possibilities of laser therapy by further adjusting the parameters of the applied laser beam, which we now apply to less severe post-covid syndromes. These patients do not have changes in the lung tissue in terms of connective tissue multiplication and therefore it does not make sense to stimulate its regeneration. The problem is in the muscle chains that have altered the patient's posture and thus prevent the development of the rib cage, which is experienced by the sufferer as impaired breathing. The application is then made according to palpation to the affected areas to correct the posture and optimise the function of the respiratory muscles. “
The effectiveness of this treatment method in the acute stage has been proven in studies by MUDr. Lukáš Rokos, Chief of Medicine at the Kladno Regional Hospital, and MUDr. Lukáš Cibulka, Chief of Medicine at the Kolín Regional Hospital. With its help, these hospitals managed even highly serious conditions. More than three hundred patients have been cured.
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