MILWAUKEE – – There are still many unknowns about how COVID-19 will affect you in the long term. Marquette University studies just that.
We’ve heard stories from long-distance coronavirus drivers – people who still have symptoms months after COVID-19. At the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center, they are working to convert these stories into quantified data.
Ken McNulty says he was the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Milwaukee County. A year later, he tests to see if there is any permanent effect on the movement of his body.
“I don’t feel them, but maybe there are physiological effects that I don’t know about,” said McNulty.
McNulty is part of a study at Marquette University that aims to put numbers behind how people feel.
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“I said to some of my colleagues, ‘Wow, we don’t know about this COVID-19,'” said Sandra Hunter, professor. “We know the lungs are affected. We know people are starting to feel tired, but we don’t know about the long-term effects.”
Hunter said any tests could help measure the effects of COVID-19.
“Nobody has quantified what we know about so far, so we get them to do leg exercises where we do a few minutes of muscle fatigue testing, and we can quantify that and see if it’s all related to the level of fatigue they are have feel, “said Hunter.
Each exhale is a breath that gets closer to the answers.
“There’s so much still to be done, but I think tests like this will have an impact because if they affect people’s daily lives, we can prepare for how we can rehabilitate people in the future,” Hunter said.
They are looking for more people to take part in the study. If you’d like, you can email [email protected] or call 414-288-2110.
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