Strategy of epidemic disease rehabilitation in mode of coordinated traditional Chinese and western medicine: taking post-COVID-19 syndrome as an example.

With the pandemic of COVID-19 being under control, more and more COVID-19 patients have entered the rehabilitation stage. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has always attached importance to the treatment of epidemic diseases in the rehabilitation stage so as to further promote the rehabilitation of patients for a better prognosis, and prevent the recurrence of the disease. It's focal to explore how to carry out accurate rehabilitation treatment for COVID-19 patients in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 for quite some time to come. This paper systematically sorts out the reported clinical manifestations of the post-COVID-19 syndrome and the current guideline for the practices in COVID-19 rehabilitation. Under the background of the collaborative rehabilitation practices with TCM and western medicine, combined with the unique advantages of TCM in disease rehabilitation, this paper discusses the TCM understanding of epidemic diseases in the rehabilitation stage and its prevention and treatment ideas, and puts forward the collaborative rehabilitation strategy with TCM and western medicine for post-COVID-19 syndrome, so as to promote higher-quality rehabilitation of the patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]