We are excited to share the second video in our four part series focusing on post-exertional malaise (PEM) and pacing created in collaboration with Patient-led Research Collaborative and MEAction. Our second episode focuses on implementing pacing to prevent PEM with Dr. Todd Davenport (one of our favorite physical therapists!)
Each video is an interview with an expert in the field and is conducted by Chimére L. Sweeney*, a Long COVID author, speaker, filmmaker, and writer. We will be sharing a new video each Monday in September and they will be tagged #MedEdMonday.
Todd E. Davenport**, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, OCS serves as tenured full Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he teaches in and serves as Vice Chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program.
"Post-exertional malaise is an abnormal recovery response to some kind of exertion." Dr. Todd Davenport.
PEM is a flare of symptoms and/or the appearance of new symptoms after exertion, often presenting 24 hours after the triggering event. Physical activity, cognitive overexertion and sensory overload can all trigger PEM. Post-exertional malaise is a unique symptom, incongruent with experiences of fatigue after overexertion in healthy individuals. It is not the same as being more tired than normal after activity.
Resource:
#MEAction Pacing guides. Clinician guide created with Patient-led Research Collaborative and Pediatric guide in collaboration with Long Covid Families. https://www.meaction.net/resource/pacing-and-management-guide/
*Since 2020, Chimére L. Sweeney has championed the inclusion of Black women with Long COVID into conversations and opportunities that support their unique storytelling, as vehicles to share their management of their condition(s) along with treatment, and invite them as authentic stakeholders in advocacy and research.
**Dr. Davenport is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s DPT and Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency programs. He is a past clinical research fellow at the Warren G. Magnusson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where his work included construction and validation of function-based physical capacity tests for patients with chronic fatiguing illnesses. Dr. Davenport earned his Master of Public Health program at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, as well as his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom).
#pwME #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid #PEM #MedEd #StopRestPace
Video description: An interview style video with Dr. Todd Davenport (white man with wearing glasses and a blue shirt sitting in an office) and Chimére L. Sweeney ( a Black woman with short hair wearing a black top and gold earrings with a wall and lamp behind her) alternate being on the screen. Captions have been added.