RECOMMENDATIONS OF EXERCISE THERAPIES IN REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY DISEASES: PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSESSMENT
Mitali Kar* and Shyamal Koley
ABSTRACT
Renal rehabilitation is a process to conduct treatments for the patients suffering from kidney disease and support to help them for their smooth achievement of social rehabilitation. Patients with dialysis-dependent kidney failure carry some additional burden of co-morbidity, such as, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, infections, and many others. Approximately 10% of the world population is affected by chronic kidney disease and the incidence of dialysis is quite high. The patients those undergoing hemodialysis are at increased risk of sarcopenia or frailty and serious health problems as compared to people with normal kidney function. Such complications lead to kidney transplantation and ultimately lead to adverse health outcomes such as functional dependence, hospitalization, and death. Exercise rehabilitation is a well established therapy in patients with kidney disease. Despite more than three decades of exercise research in patients with kidney disease, its applications were not very common in practice. It is only in recent days it gets some attraction. Thus, in the present study, an attempt has been made to assess the exercise therapies in renal rehabilitation.
Keywords: Renal rehabilitation, Exercise therapy, Kidney disease, Dialysis.
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