The Beneficial Effects of Regular Physical Activity Intradialysis |Biomedgrid

Since 1980´s Goldberg demonstrate de benefits of exercise for hemodialysis patients as an adjuvant therapy improving metabolical state [1] and beginning a trend among hemodialysis units initially as an outpatient activity and later during dialyisis. Along time it has been demonstrated in randomized clinical trials the multiple beneficial effects of physical activity, attenuating the catabolic effects associated to hemodialysis and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and improving general wellbeing among this population; it is a well-known fact that patients undergoing dialysis experiment a significant reduction in muscular mass, similar to elderly patients in whom muscular tissue is replaced by fat tissue; this muscular mass wasting correlates with lower functionality as shown by McIntyre in 2006 [2] according to his paper muscle mass, as assessed by the measurement of muscle Cross Sectional Area (CSA) corrected for linear height, was significantly lower in patients receiving dialysis (by about 9%), as compared with patients with CKD 4 reductions in muscle CSA appeared to be functionally significant.