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...
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/…
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.
🔑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.
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 🧵
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. 2/
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. 1/ 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?”