Breathing Exercises to Help Long COVID Symptoms

This study is testing whether a special breathing technique called cardiac coherence training can help people who have long COVID—the lingering symptoms that some people experience months after their initial COVID-19 infection. Half of the participants will learn this breathing technique and practice it for 6 months alongside their regular medical care, while the other half will receive standard care only. The researchers believe this breathing training might help reset your body's nervous system, which can get out of balance in long COVID.

Long COVID affects many people with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, and doctors don't yet have proven treatments to help. Recent research suggests that long COVID disrupts the nervous system that controls your heart rate and breathing, so this treatment aims to retrain that system through guided breathing exercises.