Perez-Dominguez Borja, Lopez-Brull Aida, Plaza-Carrasco Maria, Casaña-Granell Jose, Garcia-Testal Alicia, Benitez-Martinez Josep
Department of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Hospital de Manises, Valencia, Spain.
Int J Nephrol. 2022 Jun 15;2022:5330608. doi: 10.1155/2022/5330608. eCollection 2022.
Chronic kidney disease is an exponentially growing medical and economic worldwide problem. There are specific elements used to assess patient's functional capacity loss and overall deterioration in order to determine the patient's clinical status, and muscle impairment is one of the most common. It is therefore necessary to develop reliable and applicable methods to determine muscle impairment in patients with chronic kidney disease.
This is a prospective, nonexperimental, descriptive methodological investigation performed in patients undergoing hemodialysis. This study analyzes the reliability and validity of muscle strength assessments performed with handheld dynamometry in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis.
Results show overall high reliability and validity in the assessment of muscle strength of the lower limbs.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess handheld dynamometry in patients undergoing hemodialysis, presenting promising results with a relatively affordable and easily applicable method.
慢性肾脏病是一个在全球范围内呈指数级增长的医学和经济问题。为了确定患者的临床状态，有特定的要素用于评估患者的功能能力丧失和整体恶化情况，而肌肉损伤是最常见的情况之一。因此，有必要开发可靠且适用的方法来确定慢性肾脏病患者的肌肉损伤情况。
这是一项对接受血液透析的患者进行的前瞻性、非实验性、描述性方法学调查。本研究分析了在接受血液透析的慢性肾脏病患者中使用手持测力计进行肌肉力量评估的可靠性和有效性。
结果显示在评估下肢肌肉力量方面总体具有较高的可靠性和有效性。
据我们所知，这是第一项评估接受血液透析患者手持测力计的研究，该研究通过一种相对经济且易于应用的方法呈现出了有前景的结果。
