Evaluating and Supporting Patients with Cognitive Symptoms Following COVID

During this COCA Call, presenters discuss post-COVID conditions, an umbrella term for health consequences that are present four or more weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2, including long COVID. AAPM&R has recently published a Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Consensus Guidance Statement on the Assessment and Treatment of Cognitive Symptoms in PCC that provides guidance to clinicians for assessing and treating individuals with cognitive symptoms and a history consistent with PCC.

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