{"id":4193,"date":"2024-01-04T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:05:32","slug":"long-covid-causes-changes-in-body-that-make-exercise-debilitating-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-causes-changes-in-body-that-make-exercise-debilitating-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with long Covid feel tired, unwell and in pain for lengthy periods after exercise, and researchers say they now know why.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say they have evidence that biological changes are to blame, such as severe muscle damage, mitochondrial problems and the presence of microclots in the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really confirming that there is something inside the body going wrong with the disease,\u201d said Dr Rob W\u00fcst, an author of the study at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Long Covid is thought to affect tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, and many experience a worsening of symptoms for weeks after a single bout of exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with long Covid feel tired, unwell and in pain for lengthy periods after exercise, and researchers say they now know why.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say they have evidence that biological changes are to blame, such as severe muscle damage, mitochondrial problems and the presence of microclots in the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really confirming that there is something inside the body going wrong with the disease,\u201d said Dr Rob W\u00fcst, an author of the study at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Long Covid is thought to affect tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, and many experience a worsening of symptoms for weeks after a single bout of exercise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-causes-changes-in-body-that-make-exercise-debilitating-study\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating \u2013 study<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,30,11,366,75,76,264,8,14,754,815],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-fatigue","tag-long-covid","tag-microclots","tag-mitochondria","tag-mitochondrial-dysfunction","tag-post-exertional-malaise","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-the-netherlands","tag-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}