Several hospitals in Shanghai have opened new crown rehabilitation clinics for both adults and children

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Recently, Shanghai “Yang Kang” patients gradually increased, however, “Baojuan voice” “cement seal nose” “blade throat However, symptoms such as “Baojuan voice”, “cement sealed nose” and “razor throat” are still troubling many people. Many patients said that they still have cough, weakness, shortness of breath, insomnia and other problems after turning negative. For this reason, several medical institutions in Shanghai have opened rehabilitation clinics for newly crowned patients, including second- and third-level comprehensive as well as specialized medical institutions, and also community health service centers, both for adults and rehabilitation follow-up clinics for children.

“With the gradual control of the outbreak, more and more patients with novel coronavirus infections are recovering after treatment. But then comes the secondary problem after viral infection, some patients still have different degrees of chest tightness, shortness of breath, weakness, cough, cough or post-healing symptoms of myocarditis after their complaints have turned negative, and some patients may even have psychological hidden problems such as insomnia and anxiety.” The person in charge of the Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital revealed that from January 1, 2023, the hospital’s new Crown Rehabilitation Specialized Outpatient Clinic is officially open to the public, with clinic hours on Monday, Tuesday and Friday mornings and Thursday afternoons.

The said person revealed that this clinic covers the whole process of assessment and treatment, combining prevention and treatment through an integrated diagnosis and treatment process, and formulating home rehabilitation programs for patients to improve their cardiopulmonary, somatic and psychological functions while improving their immunity and preventing the reinvasion of viruses. “Among them, the assessment mainly contains cardiopulmonary exercise test, psychological and sleep function assessment, and the intervention training contains cardiopulmonary rehabilitation training, airway contouring training and psychological intervention.”

Shanghai Children’s Hospital revealed that the hospital opened the “Children’s New Coronary Infection Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Clinic” on December 29, 2022, in the form of a combination of online and offline, with online consultation all day every Saturday and Sunday; offline clinic all day every Monday to Sunday (Luding Road Campus and Beijing West Road Campus).

“Some children with new crown infection still have different degrees of recovery symptoms after their nucleic acid tests turn negative, such as cough, sore throat, weakness, poor nausea, anxiety and poor sleep quality, which is the reason why we opened the rehabilitation clinic.” The head of the outpatient office of Shanghai Children’s Hospital revealed that this rehabilitation clinic provides traditional Chinese medicine tonics, granules, and proprietary Chinese medicine internal doses, combined with external treatments such as acupressure, tui na, acupuncture, and Chinese food therapy guidance programs, according to the clinical manifestations of children, combined with Chinese medicine physical conditioning, to help children’s complete recovery and escort their health.

On January 4, Shanghai Children’s Hospital opened the “New Coronavirus Infection Respiratory Follow-Up Clinic”.

In addition, Shanghai Children’s Hospital also opened the “New Coronavirus Infection Respiratory Follow-Up Clinic” on January 4. The clinic mainly focuses on children after “Yang Kang”, and carries out rehabilitation assessment based on the child’s lung inflammation imaging absorption and lung function impairment, etc. Based on the assessment results, the rehabilitation medical plan and rehabilitation training for children with neocoronavirus pneumonia are formulated in a targeted manner to realize the whole process management and promote the child’s full recovery. Children with combined allergic diseases such as asthma, cough variant asthma and allergic rhinitis can also undergo home observation, follow-up examinations, health monitoring and rehabilitation management under the guidance of doctors.

“The New Coronavirus Infection Respiratory Follow-Up Clinic is held twice a week, on Wednesday morning and Sunday morning for two half days, and all 30 numbers were booked on the first day of the clinic on January 4. Most of them are children who do not have a fever but have a cough that does not go away after infection.” Jiang Kun, chief physician of the respiratory department at Shanghai Children’s Hospital, said.

In addition to tertiary comprehensive and specialized medical institutions, district-level medical institutions have also opened new crown infection rehabilitation clinics, such as the recently opened new crown infection rehabilitation clinic at Jiading District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is open all day every Monday to Friday, mainly for patients recovering from new crown infection may also have a lack of positive energy, residual evil energy, internal organs deficiency, loss of qi and blood and other conditions, using Chinese medicine interventions to promote patients’ physiological and psychological It includes traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, tui na, traditional gong methods such as Six Characters, Eight Duan Jin, Five Animal Play, Taijiquan, etc., and rehabilitation training, as well as dietary and nutritional guidance.

In addition to tertiary care institutions, some community hospitals have also opened new crown rehabilitation clinics. For example, for “Yang Kang” late still persistent weakness, discomfort, anxiety and other syndromes, Shanghai Yangpu District, Dinghai Community Health Service Center recently opened a “new crown Chinese medicine rehabilitation special clinic”.

The head of Dinghai Community Health Service Center said that the center’s New Crown Rehabilitation Clinic uses a combination of Chinese and Western medicine to promote the recovery of “Yang Kang” as soon as possible to restore the full state. The special clinic is open from Monday to Friday, including the anti-epidemic formula of Chinese medicine, including “prevention formula, treatment formula and recovery formula”, together with “breathing training, acupuncture point therapy, aerobic training” and other rehabilitation techniques to relieve “Yang Kang” late appearance of smell, taste failure, lung dysfunction, etc.. Currently, Yangpu District is gradually expanding this service to all communities in the district.