Effect of Virtual Reality in Patients With Long Covid-19

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SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in late 2019. It is a highly
 contagious virus that has been reported to occur in humans and is said to cause pneumonia.
 
 Covid-19 infection is transmitted through droplets during coughing and sneezing and through
 contact with the mouth, nose or eyes after contaminated hands. The most obvious symptoms of
 Covid-19 symptoms include cough, dyspnea and fever. Covid-19, which can also be seen
 asymptomatic, is in intensive care it may be severe enough to require hospitalization, cause
 multiple organ failure and even death it could be. Musculoskeletal symptoms such as fatigue,
 myalgia, and arthralgia are common with Covid-19 are the symptoms. The first case in Turkey
 was reported on March 11, 2020.
 
 Long-term Covid or Chronic Post Covid Syndrome are multi-system syndromes that last more than
 12 weeks and physical, cognitive, psychological, social and occupational domains. The most
 commonly reported long covid symptoms are; fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, joint pain,
 chest pain.
 
 Virtual reality application provides its users with content created using computer
 technology. In a virtual environment with a high perception of reality, the aim is to enable
 mirror neuron activation, enabling the individual to interact with virtual objects and events
 with three-dimensional movements and to create the perception of doing all these in the real
 world.
 
 Virtual reality for training, treatment, rehabilitation, analysis and testing purposes in
 healthcare can be used. It is possible to use virtual reality for different purposes, for
 treatment and rehabilitation. With virtual reality applications in treatment and
 rehabilitation processes It was stated that patient motivation will increase and patient fear
 and anxiety will decrease.
 
 No study was found in the literature investigating the effect of virtual reality application
 on fatigue, functional capacity and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients. The
 purpose of this study; To investigate the effect of virtual reality application on fatigue,
 functional level and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients.