COVID-19: Point Info!

Des traces de confinement sont perceptibles dans notre physique. Nous semblons avoir vieilli d'une décennie en un peu plus d'un an.

Carla Berrocal

1 Carélie Vazquez August 15, 2021 - 05:40 CEST

Strong, vaulted shoulders, head pressed.Clumsy legs.Closed hips and painful joints.Eager.Irritable.Tired view and dry skin.We have bodies of economy class, transoanic flight on a low cost airline.But we did not make such a trip, but another that made us pass from the sofa to the table, from the table to bed, and again and again.With few calorie expenses and a lot of anxiety.We drag a body of such a heavier pandemic - between one and three more kilos - and who has tightened the jaw for a year.

The by-products of months of confinement and telework begin to win the firms of physiotherapists, psychiatrists, traumalmologists,.Yes, with the pandemic, your investment in the gym in recent years has disappeared.Fat accumulated in unusual places, a stiff neck and pain in the lower back due to long hours of telework in chairs designed to sit for dinner for half an hour.Anxious bodies that have managed uncertainty by stretching all the muscles and spending white nights.

""""We fight stress by tightening the jaw,"""" explains the physiotherapist Lida Herraiz of the office of Gonzalo Vidal Chiropractic.""""This season, almost 80% of the people with whom I am dealing with this gesture of tension accumulated.""""

The Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (Seedo) maintains that 49.8% of the Spaniards have gained weight in our pandemic.Daily rituals to get up, dress, hurry or take public transport being prohibited, physical activity has been reduced to a minimum.A year later, threading something other than a tracksuit is a challenge.The brutal decline of what experts call accessory physical activity - the movements for daily operation, to dress in going down the stairs - has everything upset. """"Du jour au lendemain, tous les rituels ont été abandonnés, ce qui signifie perdre des repères vitaux, manquer d'ancrages et entrer dans un sentiment de perte de contrôle"""", explique Carlos María Alcover, professeur de psychologie sociale à l'université Rey Juan Carlos.,,

Those who tried to play sports at home are not spared.Experts say that even those who are never injured have been injured. """"Les sportifs qui ont improvisé la salle de gym à la maison ont subi un impact important sur leur corps en s'entraînant sur des sols non techniques, il y avait aussi beaucoup de débutants qui ont décidé de commencer à faire du sport à travers des écrans sans la supervision d'un spécialiste"""", explique Sara Álvarez, fondatrice du gymnase Reto 48, et ajoute : « Il y a eu des changements soudains dans le corps : nous avons perdu du muscle en cours de route et nous avons pris quelques kilos.Or more"""".

A study from the University of San Francisco quantified these extra pounds.According to a measure carried out with American citizens between February and June 2020, for each month of confinement, 0.70 kilogram of weight was taken.The researchers identified three causes: a significant reduction in daily steps, drastic changes in lifestyles and an increase in snacking and diet of all kinds.

""""La prise de poids a causé des ravages à de nombreuses personnes"""", observe Sara lvarez.""This is proof of claudication, that the will was lost, in addition to the force and the pulmonary capacity.Each physical change has mental consequences, and it was difficult.The good news is that the body has a memory, and with persistence and efforts, it is possible to return to the point where we were before the pandemic ”.

In one year subject to the cruelty of a poorly lit front camera during long zoom sessions, we scrutinized our faces like never before and discovered things whose existence we were unaware of.Paz Torralba, director of The Beauty Concept, specifies that confinement has also wreaked havoc. """"Plus grande flaccidité du visage, vieillissement prématuré, cernes et rides marquées, rétention d'eau et graisse déposée à des endroits où il n'y en avait pas auparavant.""""

The mask has emphasized the gaze, and right there are the prayers of the customers of the consultations of beauty institutes."From now on, we pay more attention to the face than to the body, in particular the legs of goose and the wrinkles of the forehead.Immediate results are requested.For example, skin filling products, botulinum toxin, anti-imperfections and photorameration.And although women are in the majority, one in five also looked for cosmetic improvements.Alopecia is his drama.The magazine L'ANCANCISTEPARLE DU BOOM ZOOM in the industry and refers to a 10 % increase in cosmetic procedures in the United States, 20 % in France.The Secper (Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery) speaks of growth between 25% and 30% in certain centers.

Our new self is a suicide bomber, make worse decisions and thirst for revenge.These are the conclusions of a study by the open evidence group of the University Open of Catalonia, which specifies that after two months of confinement, the cognitive capacities had been altered among the 5,000 citizens of Spain, Italy and theUnited Kingdom studied."During the first wave, the debate between health and economy was on the rise," recalls Francisco Lupiáñez, professor at the UOC, "and what we managed to demonstrate is that confinement was notFree either ".

If in the past year you feel like you have aged a decade at once, you are not alone.Some 2,900 million people, more than a third of the world's population, support it.