Abstract Objective: Live-based exercise programs offer great potential for the implementation of evidence-based interventions focused on promoting healthy habits. The outbreak of COVID-19 provided an opportunity to undertake an online survey to study the changes in exercise barriers/benefits, fatigue level, and quality of life after online live exercise program during lockdown, or quarantine. Methods: The sample was composed of a total of 143 women (age Mean = 32.48±6.6yrs) from a convenience sample of participants was recruited through social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp). The questionnaire asked for demographic information, body weight, body height, physical activity, and lifestyle factors before and during the quarantine. One-hundred and forty-three women volunteers were received an online live exercise program including strengthening, HIIT and stretching 6 sessions in a week during COVID19 pandemic and were assessed the measures of recruitment, exercise benefits/barriers, fatigue severity level and general quality of life at baseline, 3rd-wk and 6th-wk of the exercise program. Results: Significant differences were observed in fatigue severity scale and health status between baseline and at 3rd-wk (p < 0.05) in women. No difference in the level of fatigue, barriers, benefits of exercise, quality of life and health status between baseline and at 3rd-wk, and 3rd-wk and 6th-wk or baseline and 6th-wk (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the internet-based exercise program is a viable alternative for the delivery and dissemination of interventions focused on promoting healthy habits, and a totally self-administered intervention can also produce short-term positive results. This program supports during lockdown reduce the risk of developing persistent fatigue related chronic fatigue syndrome.

Objective: To compare early effects of the application of kinesio and athletic taping as part of the intensive conservative physiotherapy of the lateral epicondylitis using the results from ultrasonography and clinical tests. Methods: Twenty-eight volunteers aged from 27 to 55 years old who had been clinically diagnosed with the lateral epicondylitis received in addition to the 4-week conventional physiotherapy program, one group was treated with athletic taping (n=14), the other with kinesio taping (n=14). The patients were evaluated through clinical tests (visual analog scoring, isokinetic elbow, grip and pinch strength tests, a Disability of Arm and Shoulder questionnaire (DASH) and ultrasonography examination on the first and last days of the physiotherapy program. Results: The two groups had similar characteristics in all the baseline findings-and they showed improvement in the DASH score and the regression in pain scores. The activity pain was further reduced in the kinesio group (p = 0.006). However, there were no significant differences in isokinetic muscle strength at 600 /s and 1200 /s velocity speeds between kinesio and athletic groups. There was also a substantial reduction in the tendon thickness in the kinesio group (p = 0.063, 0.031, 0.07; respectively) The tendon thickness was reduced by 92.3% in the kinesio-taped patients, and only 22.2% in the athletic taped patients. The presence of a tear in the tendon had a negative effect on the tendon thickness reduction (p < 0.001). Conclusions: The results showed that physiotherapy coupled with the kinesiotaping was considered to be the better choice in the short-term treatment of the lateral epicondylitis. Since the presence of a tear has an impact on the healing process, ultrasonography might be an efficient method to use to discover the existence of a tear in the tendon and informing the decision about the appropriate type of treatment.