Post-Covid Recovery Program
Appointments are available in our 10 locations as well as in-home and teletherapy.
Are you one of the tens of thousands of people suffering from lingering COVID-19 symptoms? At NY Physical Therapy & Wellness, we perform an extensive evaluation to understand how COVID-19 has affected your life, and come up with a customized treatment plan so you can get back to your daily activities and the things you love. We assess your strength, sensation, endurance, balance, and emotional stressors.
We provide:
- Endurance training to improve fatigue
- Strengthening to improve weakness
- Balance training to help with weakness, numbness, or pain from nerve damage (Neuropathy)
- Manual therapy to help with headaches
- Treatment to relieve pain
- Physical activities to reduce the risk for falls and chronic disease
- Breathing exercises to improve lung capacity
- Stretching to improve flexibility and mobility post-hospitalization
- Care Giver training to reduce the burden of care
- Constant monitoring of vital signs throughout treatment sessions
The most commonly reported long-term symptoms that Physical Therapy can help include:
- Fatigue
- Shortness of breath
- Weakness
- Joint and/or muscle pain
- Difficulty Performing Daily Activities
- Difficulty thinking or concentrating (also referred to as “brain fog”)
- Headaches
- Weakness, numbness or pain from nerve damage (Neuropathy)
Physical therapy can also help with less common long-term complications that can affect different organ systems in the body, including:
- Cardiovascular: Inflammation of the heart muscle
- Respiratory: Lung function abnormalities
- Psychiatric: Depression, anxiety, changes in mood