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authors: Bittencourt, Juliana Valentim; Reis, Felipe José Jandre; Nogueira, Leandro Alberto Calazans
title: Pain in COVID-19 patients: A call to action for physical therapists to provide pain management after an episode of COVID-19
date: 2021-06-18
journal: Braz J Phys Ther
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2021.06.003
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doc_id: 792541
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Clinicians should be mindful that patients with post-acute 29 covid-19 may report several musculoskeletal and neurological 30 manifestations. The most common musculoskeletal symptoms 31 include myalgia (19%), headache (12%), back pain (10%), mus-32 cle weakness (1.6%), skeletal muscle injury (1.6%), arthralgia 33 (1.6%), and facial muscle pain (1.6%). 2 Brazilian patients with 34 covid-19 presented myalgia, fatigue, and headache as initial 35 symptoms. 6 Nonetheless, it is now well established that 36 covid-19 presents peripheral or central neurological complica-37 tions. 7 Dizziness (10%), smell impairment (35%), taste 

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 77 pandemic

Neurological and mus-80 culoskeletal features of COVID-19: D 8 X Xa systematic review and 81 meta-analysis

Post-acute COVID-19 84 syndrome

Potential for increased preva-87 lence of neuropathic pain after the COVID-19 pandemic

The social threats of COVID-90 19 for people with chronic pain

Clinical 93 manifestations and factors associated with mortality from COVID-94 19 in older adults: D 1 0 X Xretrospective population-based study with 95 9807 older Brazilian COVID-19 patients

Neurologic manifestations of hospi-98 talized patients with coronavirus disease

A COVID-19 patient with 102 intense burning pain

nate between mechanism-based categories of pain experi-106

the musculoskeletal system: a systematic review

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjpt.2021.06.003