Physiotherapy management for COVID-19 in the acute hospital setting and beyond: an update to clinical practice recommendations

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Physiotherapy, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
• ³ Department of Physiotherapy, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁴ Discipline of Physiotherapy, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia; Physiotherapy Department, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia.
• ⁵ Physiotherapy Department, Launceston General Hospital, Launceston, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
• ⁶ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁷ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Critical Care, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁸ Department of Physiotherapy, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁹ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Departments of Physiotherapy and Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹¹ School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• ¹² School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada; The Research Institute of St Joe's, Hamilton, Canada.
• ¹³ Physiotherapy Department, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia.
• ¹⁴ NHS Leadership Academy, Leadership and Lifelong Learning, People Directorate, NHS England and Improvement, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Physiotherapy, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹⁶ Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Health Sciences & Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Perth, Australia.