Physical fitness after 3 and 6 months recovery from COVID-19 infection in pre-cadet

Authors

  • Benjawan Jampasak Rehabilitation Medicine Group, Samut Sakhon Hospital

Abstract

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 to early January 2023, with 659 million cases worldwide, some survivors has symptoms after recovering from long-term infection (long COVID) that continue for several weeks (12 weeks or more) with multisystem symptoms – respiratory, cardiovascular, kidneys, brain, etc., which may lead to a decrease in physical fitness among military students. Which will be a problem for training and future missions. Objective To study the physical fitness of pre-cadets 3 and 6 months after recovering from COVID-19 infection, whether their physical fitness has decreased or not.

Method Take all pre-cadet to test their physical fitness (pulse at rest, sitting up, push-ups, pull-ups, running, body fat, muscle mass, bone mass etc.). After that, when there is an outbreak of COVID-19, the students were divided into two groups: infected and non-infected. After the symptoms of COVID-19 were cured, both groups were tested for physical fitness 3 and 6 months after infection, the results obtained were statistically compared.

Results 3 months after COVID-19 infection in pre-cadets were found that physical fitness increase in sitting up, push-up and running topics at statistically significant level of 0.01 (p < 0.001). Physical fitness of pre-cadets 6 months after infection with COVID-19 in the tests of sitting up, push-ups, pull-ups and swimming, its was found to be significantly improved at the 0.01 level (p < 0.001).

Conclusion After 3 and 6 months of recovery from COVID-19 infection, the infected pre-cadets showed no decline in physical fitness.

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2022-08-30

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Jampasak B. Physical fitness after 3 and 6 months recovery from COVID-19 infection in pre-cadet. Phahol Hosp J [internet]. 2022 Aug. 30 [cited 2025 Apr. 21];11(32):40-56. available from: https://he04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PPHJ/article/view/967

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