Connected but shaped
Exercises in dialysis is an idea to create an 'app' that helps patients in treatment to end the sedentary lifestyle
Patients on hemodialysis usually have low levels in their physical condition and are highly
sedentary. This is explained by Miquel Gómez, who has created, along with Anna Yuguero, 39-year-old Barbarian and fellow physiotherapist at the Center for Dialysis and Applied Research of the Clinic of Barcelona, a proposal to develop an application for mobile and tablets where each patient can to follow a
custom exercise pattern during their treatment: "Always after an evaluation by the physiotherapist. Following the app you can have a profile of the weekly physical activity of each patient."
custom exercise pattern during their treatment: "Always after an evaluation by the physiotherapist. Following the app you can have a profile of the weekly physical activity of each patient."
The 33-year-old Barcelona physicist says he saw how Yubero had started an exercise program for patients passing through sheets of paper: "I thought then that it could become technological, and so it could not only be used in our center but in anyone who was interested. "
They put it to the beginning of this year and, according to Gomez, what there is until now is a prototype: "I built it myself, just to give it a boost and get funding to carry it out." To Gómez and Yubero, it seems essential, due to the high levels of sedentarism of these patients, a tool that helps and promotes physical activity. "Usually patients are connected to the machine by a hug, so that arm is rendered unusable during treatment and, in addition, they are often lying for hours."