Never Neglect Rehabilitation

Abstract

The most common coronovirus symptoms are persisting high fever, headache and dry cough for several days. However, some pa- tients also experience symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose, loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting, muscle and joint pain, shortness of breath, cough with phlegm, severe respiratory failure and kidney failure. Geriatric population especially those with comorbidities are at high risk of de- veloping serious illness and impairment in motor functions with severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 infection. It is common to ig- nore rehabilitation needs of geriatric patients while majoring on primary problems. A 91-year-old female coronavirus disease-20 19 survivor, who did not directed to the rehabilitation and became immobile due to a severe infection is presented here to highlight the sig nificance of reha- bilitation. The multitude of internal problems and the shortness of expected life time of our patient has caused to disregarded about her muscu- loskeletal system problems, functionality and quality of life.