Dialysis Exercise With a Bed Compatible Leg TRAiningstool (DEXTRA)

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Kidney Diseases

Hemodialysis

Treatments

Behavioral: Intradialytic exercise training

Behavioral: Control

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06045442

23-40-B

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a randomised controlled intervention trial for dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (n=32). The aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of an intradialytic training with a simple bed compatible trainingstool in comparison to a control group.

Full description

Patients are randomised to either the intervention or control group at the beginning of the study. Both groups are evaluated at the beginning and after 2 months regarding their body composition, physical performance, fatigue and quality of life. The control group receives usual care. The intervention group receives an intradialytic exercise training with a bed compatible trainingstool.

Enrollment

32 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients ≥ 18 years
Patients who started dialysis more than 3 months ago
Patients must be mentally and physically able to participate in exercise

Exclusion criteria

Patients who are not mentally or physically able to participate in intradialytic exercise. These include patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, diseases that impair physical performance or/and could be aggravated by activity, such as ischaemic cardiopathy or symptoms associated with coronary heart disease, chronic coronary heart disease, chronic lung disease and orthopaedic conditions that make exercise impossible.