Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD Profile picture
Professor & Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine @uthsa_rehabmed @UTHealthSA | #Physiatry #LongCOVID | mom, runner, #LatinasInMedicine | my ideas
Jan 11 9 tweets 3 min read
1/🧠Excited to get this to press in @AJPMR:
"EECP Improves Cognitive Function of Persons with #LongCOVID."
What did we find?
journals.lww.com/ajpmr/abstract… 2/ If you want to know more about EECP? Can see my prior thread here of my own experience with @FlowTherapyEECP...
Jun 23, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
1/ At @theNASEM Symposium on Long COVID now listening to Jeanne Bertolli of CDC on perspectives from ME/CFS.
Limitations of definitions…
- Need involvement of those with lived experiences.
- Standardized evaluation of symptoms not required.
- Did not meet all needs 2/ committee came together in 2015 to create the IOM diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS:
https://t.co/Mog8rv3ysjnap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19012/…
Dec 16, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
Trying #EECP at @FlowTherapyEECP today for my #LongCovid

It’s intense but cool. Will try a full course after the holidays.
More in thread below… 1/ 2/ What is #EECP?
Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is used for non-invasive treatment of heart conditions like angina.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Sep 14, 2022 8 tweets 7 min read
I presented at @AdvocateKids @advocatehealth #WIMmonth event this past weekend on Inclusive Leadership: Leave no (wo)man behind.

🔑Some about me & my key points to support #WomenInMedicine as a leader: 🧵1/ 2/ I am first gen #LatinasInMedicine from a humble background on the Texas-Mexico border. I was a great student growing up. I pleased my family. As a resident, I made more money than my family. I had no idea I was underpaid as a junior attending. I pleased my chair as RVU queen.
Jan 6, 2022 10 tweets 7 min read
Today I virtually lectured the residents from @BCM_PMandR & @UTHPMR about #LongCOVID.

I was touched that the residents wanted the slides & thought it was one of the most important talks of the year. Will share some in a thread 🧵 Selfie of Monica We are still trying to figure out the pathophysiology of #LongCOVID... these are just a few of the hypothesis. But definitely inflammation and immune system dysregulation is involved.
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Jun 28, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Dear #MedTwitter,
Please do not make statements assuming a person with a major disability has a poor quality of life. This is ableism.
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thesun.co.uk/news/11968402/… 2/
St. David’s Doctor: “So as of right now, his quality of life - he doesn’t have much of one.”

Melissa: “What do you mean? Because he’s paralyzed with a brain injury he doesn’t have quality of life?”

St. David’s Doctor: “Correct”