How to exercise for patients with chronic kidney disease?

  Abstract: 1 Exercise in moderation The benefits of regular and moderate exercise are well known, but excessive exercise is harmful to patients with kidney disease. The reason is that excessive exercise makes people tired, reduces resistance and induces colds or aggravates nephritis.   The benefits of regular and moderate exercise are well known, but excessive exercise is harmful to patients with kidney disease. The reason is that excessive exercise makes people fatigued, reduces resistance, and induces a cold or nephritis condition to worsen. It is clear that how to master the “degree” of exercise is very important for nephritis patients. This is especially true in the acute or severe phase of kidney disease, and should be done with care.  How to determine whether the amount of exercise is moderate?   The duration of exercise should be such that no muscle weakness, breathing difficulty or physical fatigue occurs, and then the duration of each exercise can be gradually extended. As for the intensity of exercise, it is recommended that patients who have never exercised, it is best to have a gradual increase in intensity to avoid exceeding their tolerance. At the beginning, the exercise heart rate to reach the maximum heart rate (simple empirical formula: maximum heart rate = 220 – age) of 30% to 50% can be; transition phase to reach 50% to 60%; exercise into the right track after, can be maintained at 60% to 80%. Frequency of 2-3 times a week is good.  2 persistent exercise is valuable to persist. Kidney disease patients avoid a single exercise intensity is too large, then the intensity of moderate and persistent is more important. All things are difficult to adhere to, here are a few tips: measure up, do not force; feel tired must rest and adjust, according to their own circumstances (such as age, physical fitness, occupation, hobbies, etc.) to choose, if there is a sports companion, usually encourage each other to urge, more conducive to persistence, preferred aerobic exercise, which can enhance cardiorespiratory endurance. Including indoor exercise, outdoor walking, walking, running, cycling, doing radio exercises and all kinds of gymnastics, taijiquan, eight duanjin, five birds play and dance, etc..  3 precautions before and after exercise: 1, to choose the right weather to go out to exercise, avoid bad weather, preferably in the fresh air, the environment is quiet.  2, winter and spring do not walk in the wind and high-rise buildings, so as not to feel the wind and cold, the occurrence of upper respiratory tract infections, aggravating kidney disease.  3, before exercise to do warm-up and preparatory exercises, such as leg press, twist waist, turn head, pull up, etc., not only can activate the joint muscles, prevent sprains, but also allow the body to better enter the preparatory exercise state.  4, appropriate massage after exercise is more beneficial to the recovery of the disease; exercise and physical therapy together can reduce fatigue, but also to improve the effectiveness of treatment.