{"id":3549,"date":"2023-05-16T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:03:10","slug":"researchers-may-have-found-a-way-to-treat-long-covid-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/16\/researchers-may-have-found-a-way-to-treat-long-covid-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers may have found a way to treat long-COVID fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/way-to-treat-long-covid-fatigue\">Interesting Engineering<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newcastle University researchers have shed light on one of the most common side effects of COVID-19:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/researchers-prove-that-thinking-hard-does-make-you-tired\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatigue<\/a>. They may indeed have a treatment for this debilitating condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have begun a new study to test the effectiveness of a TENS machine to alleviate the fatigue in patients with long COVID. This device is most commonly used in childbirth to alleviate pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to a press release by the institution published on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They found that people with post-COVID fatigue showed underactivity in three specific areas of the nervous system. \u201cThese abnormalities in the results on objective tests show that fatigue in long Covid is a measurable disease and these tests may, in time, help us understand how changes in the nervous system contribute to fatigue,\u201d said Dr. Demetris Soteropoulos, Senior Lecturer in Motor Systems Neuroscience at Newcastle University who led the research. The new study followed a group of 37 volunteers with post-COVID fatigue who underwent a series of non-invasive behavioral and neurophysiological tests. Their results were compared to those of 52 control subjects, matched for age and sex, who underwent the same tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/way-to-treat-long-covid-fatigue\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Engineering Newcastle University researchers have shed light on one of the most common side effects of COVID-19:&nbsp;fatigue. They may indeed have a treatment for this debilitating condition. They have begun a new study to test the effectiveness of a TENS machine to alleviate the fatigue in patients with long COVID. This device is most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}