LI Guo 1,2 , GAO Qiang 1,2 , HE Chengqi 1,2
  • 1. Rehabilitation Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Rehabilitation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
HE Chengqi, Email: hxkfhcq@126.com
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Along with the illness progresses of maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients, their functional limitations such as decreased cardiopulmonary endurance, muscle loss, dysfunction of arteriovenous fistula, fatigue, and sleep disorders are increasingly prominent and urgently need to be resolved. Modern physiotherapy as a non-invasive and non-pharmacological therapy which can reduce the functional limitations of MHD patients, improves the patients’ exercise capacity and quality of life. Physical therapy techniques suitable for MHD patients include active and passive exercise therapy such as aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, breathing training, and muscle stretching, as well as physical agents therapy such as neuromuscular electrical stimulation, infrared, and low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic field. Choosing appropriate physical agents and exercise prescription can reduce the treatment risk and improve the efficacy.

Citation: LI Guo, GAO Qiang, HE Chengqi. Research progress of physical therapy techniques for maintenance hemodialysis patients. West China Medical Journal, 2020, 35(7): 766-770. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202006092 Copy

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