Long COVID Evaluation in Beverly Hills & Los Angeles

Long COVID — the post-acute symptoms that linger weeks, months, or years after a SARS-CoV-2 infection — can touch nearly every system in the body. The U.S. CDC and the NIH RECOVER initiative recognize a wide and shifting symptom set. The clusters we see most often at FIT LA are the ones with a physical, examinable basis:

If a chest X-ray, an ECG, and routine labs all came back “normal” while you still feel broken, you are not imagining it. It often means the workup hasn’t yet looked at the tissue that connects everything together — your fascia and connective tissue.

For a subset of patients, Long COVID doesn’t fully resolve because it sits on top of an underlying connective-tissue difference that was there all along — and was never diagnosed. Our founder, Dr. Jacques Courseault, MD, co-authored peer-reviewed research making exactly this case: that intractable Long COVID can be a signal of underlying hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD).

The overlap is striking. Fatigue, post-exertional malaise, widespread pain, brain fog, and dysautonomia / POTS are core features of hypermobility as much as they are of Long COVID — and independent research has found hypermobility in a large share of patients with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, and Long COVID. There is also a proposed mechanism at the tissue level: that the same fascial myofibroblasts driving “viral fibromyalgia-ness” may help explain the stubborn, body-wide pain.

Why this matters for you: a hypermobility-aware, fascia-aware evaluation can surface a driver that’s both testable and treatable — turning an open-ended “Long COVID” label into a concrete plan. That is the entire premise of how we evaluate at FIT LA.

This is not a 12-minute “everything looks normal” visit. It is a structured, physician-led assessment built to find the physical and connective-tissue contributors to your symptoms — and to give you a plan.

A diagnosis you can’t act on isn’t worth much. FIT LA doesn’t claim to “cure” Long COVID — no one honestly can — but we don’t stop at naming the problem either. We treat the contributing musculoskeletal, fascial, metabolic, and inflammatory drivers, and we stay with you for the long-term maintenance that keeps hard-won gains from slipping away. Depending on your findings, your plan may combine:

If screening points to hypermobility, you move into our structured Hypermobility & EDS program — the same physician-led pathway pioneered at our New Orleans flagship. And because Long COVID recovery is rarely linear, we build in ongoing follow-up and maintenance — adjusting medications, modalities, and metabolic support as you change — rather than discharging you with a one-time list.

Many clinics borrow the word “fascia.” Dr. Jacques Courseault, MD, CAQSM, FAAPMR built the field around it. Board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine and an Assistant Professor at Tulane, he is the founder of The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center® — and a co-author of the peer-reviewed research connecting Long COVID to underlying hypermobility.

The Institute’s flagship in New Orleans is one of the first clinics in the world built specifically for hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. You can review the full research and publication record, the Fascia Institute itself, its Hypermobility & EDS Clinic, and the folate-dependent hypermobility work — then bring that same expertise to your case here in Beverly Hills.