What kind of physical activities are considered optimal for stage 3 CKD patients? And what are the benefits? If you are searching for the answers, please keep reading.

Generally speaking, some gentle exercises are suggested to people with stage 3 CKD, such as Tai Chi, yoga and jogging. When you read here, you may ask, what are the benefits?

Benefits of Tai Chi:

Tai Chi is one of the traditional exercises which can be regarded as an adjuvant therapy for stage 3 CKD patients. Usually, we recommend patients to keep a good and positive mind during the treatment so as to improve the therapeutic effect. Tai Chi can help regulate patients’ mood. It contributes to building up patient’s physical strength and alleviating heart failure, high blood pressure and anemia.

Benefits of Yoga:

Yoga can be considered as a physical treatment for kidney disease patients, as yoga plays an important role in kidney health. It can improve the kidney function, reduce the risks of kidney cancer and improve their life quality.

Benefits of Jogging:

Jogging belongs to an aerobic exercise. It can boost up the immune system and stimulate the production of white blood cells to fight against infections or bacteria. And it can help promote blood circulation. Besides, regular jogging can also help lower the risk of osteoporosis, fractures and cracked bones.

These physical activities indeed can benefit stage 3 CKD patients a lot. However, patients are not suggested to take them freely. For example, if you are a PKD patient, you had better avoid some poses, such as twist, back bends and so on.

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