Beneficial Aquatic Exercise for Increasing Quality of Life for COVID-19 patients

Abstract

Aquatic exercise is recommended for COVID-19 patients, because of its beneficial effects on function, quality of life, and reduction of fatigue symptoms to the reduction of shortness of breath for patients with severe symptoms. However, the beneficial aquatic exercise for increasing quality of life is still a controversial. The aim of this is to assess the beneficial of an aquatic exercise program on increasing the quality of life of COVID patients. Systematic searches were carried out in the Pubmed, Scielo and Research Gate
databases. Clinical trials with interventions involving water exercise for individuals with COVID-19 patients. Methodological quality of studies using the PEDro scale. 49 studies were found and four were selected: two studies using aquatic exercise were compared 
with a control group. The aquatic exercise program includes strengthening, balance, flexibility and stretching exercises. Program duration, daily frequency, intensity and progression vary between studies. Beneficial effects of aquatic exercise were found on
quality of life functions. However, only two out of five studies assessing quality of life by observation have a positive effect on aquatic exercise. However, in this study few or infrequently carried out these formulations to physiotherapists have carried out evidence
based practice as standard protocols after it was observed that aquatic exercise can be beneficial for increasing quality of life, because it is well built, with excessive exercise and load.