As a rehabilitation provider with expertise in the field of pain and fatigue we have been able to transfer our knowledge of supporting people with post viral fatigue following infections to the Covid-19 virus and the symptoms of long Covid.

As with everything since the pandemic started, the process of supporting people returning to work has been a steep learning curve. We asked our specialist Career and Employment Consultant for some reflections on her work with post-Covid clients over the last year.

For ten years now we have been treating clients with the persistent symptoms of fatigue and pain. Our expert team has delivered rehabilitation programmes for over 750 clients who have been supported to regain vitality. As part of our birthday celebrations, we draw together 10 things we have learnt about supporting people to recover here.

Several of our team members have ME/CFS and associated pain, and as part of our 10-year anniversary, we gathered together their top strategies for learning to live well with fatigue which they share here.

tips to help you cope with pain written by one of our clients who lives with these persistent symptoms.

Our Executive Manager shares more about how she came to be involved with Vitality360 and what she enjoys about working for the company as we celebrate supporting people for ten years.

Our founder, on the occasion of our 10 year anniversary, chats about why she set up the company, what she is most proud of and the significance of the name Vitality360.

As part of our 10-year anniversary as a rehabilitation provider in the field of fatigue and pain, creating unexpected vitality and healthy futures for over 750 clients to date, we wanted to share our suggestions for improving vitality this winter.

We recently ran a partnership webinar for health professionals alongside Affinity Health at work where we shared our expertise on the complexities of supporting those with post-covid-19 syndrome/long covid with returning to work. This blog is a summary of this event with some strategies utilising recent case stories and research findings on the collaborative approach that’s needed.

Long-Covid and diet… our specialist Dietician offers her reflections on this hotly debated topic

• What is an anti-inflamatory diet?

• Signs of malnutrition

• Is the gut microbe important?

• What about histamine intolerance?

• Why work with a dietician?

Grounding techniques can help us to self-regulate when we are feeling overwhelmed with strong emotions, unwanted thoughts or memories or when we feel disconnected. Grounding can help to distract us from what we're experiencing and refocus on the present moment which can decrease the intensity of our emotional state and enable the body to calm itself. In this blog, we list three different types of grounding, you may find that one of these works better for you, or that a combination of each is helpful.

The current COVID-19 pandemic is a stressful experience for us all in its various forms of suffering, disruption to our lives and the uncertainty it’s generating.

This article contains my 6 tips for dealing with overwhelm.

A high percentage of clients we are seeing with Long Covid describe cognitive dysfunction as one of the main symptoms they are continuing to experience. In this blog our Careers and Employment Consultant and our Executive Manager/Occupational Therapist explore what it means to be debilitated like this and how to manage it especially in relation to returning or sustaining work.

Some of our clinicians were recently at the first on line BACME conference. Read their reflections here.

We have been working with post-Covid-19 Syndrome (PC19S) from the moment we realised persistent fatigue was an issue in Covid-19. Since then, as well as having our own caseload of long Covid patients, we have developed a partnership with the University of East Anglia (UEA) and created a research study, contributed to national guidance, led training programmes, have offered supervision for healthcare professionals, and are delivering early intervention programmes and return to work programmes. In this blog our founder/director and Specialist Physiotherapist offers her insights from a clinical perspective.

It’s that time of year again when I decide that the moment has come to create a list of intentions and resolutions. Once the initial momentum of a shiny, fresh new year has dissolved into the relentless greyness of January and February it can be only a matter of time before the resolutions are pretty much discarded amidst a haze of vague guilt. With the renewed lockdown in response to the pandemic as we enter 2021; perhaps this is more of a challenge than previously.

In this blog, our expert team of specialist clinicians talks about:

• How we are drawing together our experience to date of those presenting with long-tail symptoms such as breathlessness, anxiety, and fatigue following a COVID-19 infection.

• How we have been successfully treating clients with post-viral fatigue syndrome for ten years.

• News of our exciting research proposal looking at recovery from the COVID-19 virus.

In this blog we talk to someone who has had post-viral fatigue and how this has impacted her mental health. Our Clinical Psychologist also offers some advice and strategies to support coping with the impact of this debilitating fatigue.

As we enter another lockdown to manage the pandemic, this strange world of shut down and self-isolation brings with it, continuing uncertainty and worry. It is a difficult time for all, but has special worries and challenges for people with chronic health problems. This is a time to focus on skills and strategies to meet those challenges and even thrive though Covid19.

We enjoyed our experience at the first virtual Case Management Society conference. We shared our expertise on long-Covid recovery in a short presentation during it on our virtual stand.