COVID-19 Rehabilitation With Herbal Medicine and Cardiorespiratory Exercise: Protocol for a Clinical Study

Yang Gao   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Linda L D Zhong   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Binh Quach   ¹ , BSc ;   Bruce Davies   ⁴ , PhD ;   Garrett I Ash   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Zhi-Xiu Lin   ⁷ , PhD ;   Yibin Feng   ⁸ , PhD ;   Benson W M Lau   ⁹ , PhD ;   Peter D Wagner   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Xian Yang   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Yike Guo   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Wei Jia   ^{2, 12} , PhD ;   Zhaoxiang Bian   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Julien S Baker   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Centre for Health and Exercise Science Research, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

² School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

³ Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Clinical Study Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

⁴ Neurovascular Research Laboratory, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, United Kingdom

⁵ Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁷ School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, China (Hong Kong)

⁸ School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁹ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

¹¹ Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

¹² Center for Translational Medicine and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally