Michael McCarthy

My name is Michael McCarty and I’m the Senior Exercise Physiologist within the Long Covid Service. 

My role involves:

• supporting service users in clinic – recording people’s height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen levels and rate of perceived breathlessness.
• helping people to understand their symptoms.
• discussions around sleep, nutrition, current exercise levels and future goals.
• delivery of a 4-week exercise programme to improve people’s aerobic capacity and strength in the gym. 
• supporting people to exercise after a long period away from it. 

I love seeing the differences our team make to people’s lives in a short space of time and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to research this new condition and continue to find new ways to help people manage their symptoms.

Working as a multi-disciplinary team enables us to provide holistic support to people.