Effects of exhaustion

Approx. 50-75% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) suffer from chronic exhaustion and, according to current meta-analyzes, approx. 32% of Covid-19 patients are affected.  Chronic fatigue can lead to significant restrictions in quality of life, coping with activities of daily living and the ability to work. For a better understanding of the symptoms, we would like to investigate the following questions: What is fatigue or fatigability, which factors influence this massive exhaustion, and how can we comprehensively diagnose the complex syndrome?
Funded by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden Württemberg.

How can we support affected patients?
One way to help patients in their efforts to cope with the illness is to provide psychotherapeutic support. Our Post Covid Psychotherapeutic group works with PACING and elements from ACT. We consider one important ingredient to be the guided exchange of patients with each other.

Manual Post Covid Gruppentherapie: Ein Projekt des SRH Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach in Kollaboration mit dem Labor für Motorische Kognition & Neurorehabilitation, Materialien siehe: Download-Link Hans-Ruland-Stiftung: https://hans-ruland-stiftung.de/download/

References from the project “Effects of exhaustion"
Dettmers, C., Weich, C., Herrmann, C., Saile, R., Preuss, M., Chanyalew, S. H., Schleicher, L., Klaasen van Husen, D., Randerath, J., Stoll, S., Tempfli, M., Vieten, M., & Jöbges, M. (2021). Fallvignetten aus der neurologischen Rehabilitation bei Patienten mit Post-COVID-Syndrom – Diskussionsvorschlag für die Leistungsdiagnostik. Neurologie & Rehabilitation, 3.
https://doi.org/10.14624/NR2103001

Schilling, T. K., J ; Aschenbrenner, S ;  Drengner, A ; Randerath, J ; Weisbrod, M. (2023). Manual: Langensteinbacher Post-COVID-Gruppentherapie. Hans Ruland Stiftung für Rehabilitationsforschung.

Stoll, S. E., Gölz, M. S., Watolla, D., Bauer, I., Lunz, V. C., Kath, P., Löser, A., Ruchay-Plößl, A., Jöbges, M., & Dettmers, C. (2021). Fatigue und Fatigability bei Patienten mit Multipler Sklerose vor und nach kognitiver Belastung versus Entspannung–eine Pilotstudie. Neurologie und Rehabilitation, 27(1), 23-30.

Tempfli, M., & Randerath, J. (2022). Post-COVID Fatigue: Proposed Phasic Model for Individual Psychotherapy World Federation for Neurorehabilitation Congress 2022, Vienna.