BSPRM and NHS England launched a professional society for Long Covid and other post-viral conditions.
Clinicians and researchers can sign up here
clinicalpcs.org.uk/join-cpcs/
Individuals with lived experience participate via working group
#LongCovid
#MECFS
[email protected]

BSPRM 2024 Annual Scientific Conference - Date and venue confirmed!

Date: 6-8th November 2024
Venue: Coventry Arena

Our theme will be 'Long-term conditions: Improving function - The third new indicator of health'

Save the date! 🗓️ Further details will be announced soon.

New publication examining the reasons why standardizing #LongCOVID care is challenging.

Assessing what is quality in Long COVID care using lessons from a national quality improvement collaborative and multi-site ethnography.

doi.org/10.1186/s12916…

Thanks Ami. Hope we can all work together in this society to bring about a change to neglected area of post-viral syndromes
Prof Amitava Banerjee💙
Melissa Heightman
Clinical Post Covid Society
#LongCovid
Sign up here
clinicalpcs.org.uk
The admin manager starts 15th April so bear with us until then

Thanks Eric. Our paper on LC severity types is now published in J Clinical Medicine
mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/7…
LOCOMOTIONstudy
#LongCovid
Eric Topol
Clinical Post Covid Society
British Society of Physical & Rehab Medicine

Excellent work by our PhD student Omar Khoja investigating new-onset chronic pain after viral illness: clinical presentation similar to widespread pain syndrome and QST shows central sensitisation
University of Leeds
#LongCovid
#pain
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

LOCOMOTION paper published - value of NASA Lean Test in long covid (and potentially other conditions with autonomic dysfunction/ orthostatic intolerance) -
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
LOCOMOTIONstudy
University of Leeds Press Office
Trisha Greenhalgh
Long Covid Support 🌍
Long COVID Physio
Clinical Post Covid Society

LOCOMOTION Webinar - Assessments in a #LongCOVID Clinic

Tue 20th Feb - 1-2pm GMT

Free to join, register here: bit.ly/4b9j0oA

Listen to presentations about findings from our research:
- NASA Lean Test (a test of orthostatic intolerance)
- C19-YRSm (a Long COVID PROM)

Results of the HEARTLOC feasibility study
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…
Clinical Post Covid Society
Long Covid Support 🌍
Long COVID Physio
#LongCovid
Advances in Rehabilitation Science and Practice
Sage Journals
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
LCH NHS Trust
LOCOMOTIONstudy
ME Association Dysautonomia Intl.

We can't wait for the IAA Showcase Event on 22/1/24! Guest speakers will discuss their projects boosted by IAA funding & the impact the funding had. Visit our website to see if you are eligible to apply and give your social science research a boost. bit.ly/48zPuXk

Thanks Leeds Social Sciences Institute Looking forward to the event
Academic Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine ELAROS 24/7 Ltd

Thanks BMJ for publishing our argument on strengthening rehabilitation in health systems and growing the rehabilitation workforce globally
Stefano Negrini
University of Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
LCH NHS Trust
British Society of Physical & Rehab Medicine
The Society for Research in Rehabilitation
NHS England
ISPRM
ESPRM
Advances in Rehabilitation Science and Practice

Link to the paper link.springer.com/article/10.100…
LOCOMOTIONstudy NHS England NIHR Research Long Covid Support 🌍 Department of Health and Social Care Department for Work and Pensions British Society of Physical & Rehab Medicine Ruairidh Milne Ghazala Mir Jordan Mullard🏊🏾‍♀️🦋 University of Leeds ELAROS 24/7 Ltd University of Oxford

LOCOMOTION paper in European Journal of Health Economics
Long Covid costing UK over £10 billion (£5.7 billion for productivity loss and £4.8 billion for informal caregiver costs)
#LongCovid Long Covid Support 🌍 NIHR Research NHS England Department of Health and Social Care Department for Work and Pensions

📢📰Hot off the press 👉 Long COVID in long-term care: a rapid realist review BMJ_Open

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/12/…

Thanks to our funders: Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine (FAFM) Canadian Medical Association

Dr. Akber M Dr. Valorie Crooks, PhD Maura MacPhee Alison Andrews-Paul Dr. Shannon Freeman Karen Davison MANOJ SIVAN

NASA Lean Test (NLT) needs to be a mandatory test in Long Covid
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
LOCOMOTION multicentre study of 277 LC patients compared to 50 healthy volunteers: 52% LC symptomatic on NLT; 15% LC met criteria for PoTS/ OH.
LOCOMOTIONstudy
NIHR Research
Long Covid Support 🌍

📣 JOIN THE MOVEMENT!
Former PM Boris Johnson is set to testify at the Covid Inquiry on the 6th and 7th of December. Long Covid, a catastrophic consequence of the pandemic, deserves a prominent place in discussions during this critical phase.
bit.ly/46Hjjn1

Our BMJ editorial on vaccines and post-viral conditions published today. One of the key messages for future pandemics too
LOCOMOTIONstudy
Long Covid Support 🌍
Long COVID Physio
#LongCovid
#postcovid
University of Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
LCH NHS Trust
British Society of Physical & Rehab Medicine
bmj.com/content/383/bm…

New publication from members of the LOCOMOTION #LongCOVID study team, including MANOJ SIVAN. 📄

Providing insight into the development of the Long COVID specific digital Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) platform that is used in the study. 📱

locomotion.leeds.ac.uk/news/developme…

Well done Catherine Advances in Rehabilitation Science and Practice