BACKGROUND: Fatigue is one of the most common problems experienced by chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients undergoing hemodialysis. The application of intradialytic exercises can be the best solutions to overcome fatigue related to CKD.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old male patient with CKD, who complained of severe fatigue, was selected in case study. The FACIT Fatigue Scale questionnaire and clinical indicators were measured before and after intervention. The intradialytic exercise was administered at 3rd hour of hemodialysis for 4 sessions in 2 weeks. Each session required 30 minutes, containing warming up, main exercise and cooling down. After two weeks intervention, there was an improvement of fatigue score (16 to 29) and reduction of weakness, tiredness, washout feeling, sleepy, and tiredness on eating. Moreover, the clinical indicators showed positive improvement after the intervention.
CONCLUSION: Thus, intradialytic exercise is practically promising to minimize fatigue related to CKD among patients undergoing hemodialysis. Hemodialysis nurses or other health care providers could utilize this evidence as a program to reduce the fatigue related to CKD.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.