With the rate of chronic kidney disease on the rise among older Americans, researchers seeking to improve patients’ quality of life studied a group of adults undergoing hemodialysis and found their higher rates of depression and anxiety could be associated with their impaired physical exercise capability and reduced daily physical activity, according a new study published online by the Journal of Renal Nutrition.
The researchers studied 72 relatively healthy maintenance hemodialysis patients and compared them to 39 healthy adults who were not on dialysis. They found significantly higher rates of anxiety and depression among the dialysis patients, than among the adults who were not on dialysis. They also found the dialysis patients suffering from depression and anxiety had the greatest impairments in physical exercise performance and daily physical activity.
“Adults undergoing dialysis often have less daily physical activities than other adults, but little was known about what, if any, effect this reduced activity had on their mental state,” said Joel D. Kopple, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher. “Our study found an association between reduced daily physical activities and depression and anxiety. Also, the capacity to perform physical exercise was diminished in these patients. These findings provide a strong rationale for studying whether increased daily physical activity can reduce depression and anxiety among adults undergoing dialysis.”
Each person enrolled in the study took walks, climbed stairs and engaged in other physical activities so that researchers could determine their physical abilities. The researchers gauged their depression and anxiety using standardized tests and found 43% of the dialysis patients had anxiety and 33% suffered from depression. In comparison, only 2.5% of the adults who were not on dialysis had anxiety and only 5% of them suffered from depression.
Approximately one in 10 Americans has some form of chronic kidney disease, and the incidence of chronic kidney disease among people ages 65 and older more than doubled between 2000 and 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hemodialysis is a life-preserving treatment for hundreds of thousands of Americans with kidney failure. It is a medical procedure to remove fluid and waste products from the blood and to correct electrolyte imbalances. This is accomplished using a machine and a dialyzer, which is sometimes described as an “artificial kidney.”
“Research is important to improve the quality of life of patients undergoing dialysis,” said Dr. Kopple. “With the growing population of people undergoing dialysis, this research is growing in importance.”
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<p>Question by Spirito: My back hurts should I exercise?
Yesterday I exercised and today my back hurts, can I exercise recovery workout anyway today?
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Answer by Chuma Joy
I exercise a lot! and sometimes I just skip a day or two, or just forget and think “what harm can it do?” . Well the pain I get the next day, kinda proves a point. What I’m trying to say is that when u start exercising, u should never stop. The pain you’re are getting on your back, is because your muscles were getting used to all the exercising. So exercising will only help than do more harm. So yes exercise! But don’t over do yourself. Hope I helped ; )
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Thank you – as I remember month when could hardly dress myself!!
Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! After many trials and effort to cure my tennis
elbow pains, eventually I found a better and easier method, it contains a
set of manual vacuum pump with plastic heads which can suck a bubble our
from one’s pain spot on one’s arm; if one leaves the pump up about 2 min.
at lifted height is about 1/2 inch from the original skin level; and then
release it by removing the vacuum only lifting the top lid, The pain was
gone about 95%!!! My lord. You can buy the same set of this magic tool
from local Chinese store or at the websites, but the pictures are shown at:
http://baike.baidu.com/picview/1727822/1727822/0/62667cd0a7ae59eea1ec9c34.html#albumindex=0&picindex=3
Cupping is a good easy principle to make use of mechanical ventilation
negative pressure inside the cup, the cup selected adsorption sites
(acupuncture points or pain spots).
Thanks for the excellent tips. Truly appreciated!
I read to do tennis elbow rehab excercises everyday, is this correct?
Thank you
Best video!
I agree with Scott Wallace. In our clinic we always start active and
eccentric since studies show that those exercises benefit the client most
initially. Supination and pronation exercises with a hammer would most
likely just inflame an already inflamed ECRB tendon.
Hi Madden, those are good exercises and I thoroughly believe in exercising
away the pain in fact I invented a device called Elbow Ease that by using
it reduces and in most cases gets rid of the pain.
You do 30 reps, but how many sets of these do you do ?
where are all the eccentric exercises??? all the evidence shows not to do
any concentric exercises like you are demonstrating
If you have true lateral epicondylitis, they should help…let me know!
are these exercises safe for people that have both carpal tunnel and tennis
elbow?
Please when I have to practice these exercises before practicing after
exercise?
It will be best to find another specialist in your area…
When I saw the hammer, I got pretty scared..
These exercises are light and basic. As with any exercise, the best
application is on a gradient. If you are taking the self treatment
route…let pain be your guide.
You are welcome.
Welcome Sedat.
Hi there I messages u a week or so ago w a hip issue. I have been working
thru exercises as I have been for many years before this ever happened. I
am in the process of finding some additional expert help I live in port st
licked Florida and the area leaves a lot to be desired. I have purchased an
inversion table …. What do u think of them as a whole?
Should be fine to do these…clearance from the doctor?
I wonder if it could be a little cyst.
Thanks a lot for the helpful vids. It’s like visiting a sports therapist,
only less expensive.
After exercise, give your muscle time to heal. Do not overdo exercise. This will only cause your injury.