Health-Related Physical Fitness in End-Stage Kidney Disease

Any clinician, physical therapist, kinesiologist, or nurse who works with patients with end-stage renal disease knows the serious impairment and obstacles this disease brings to the lives of our patients. As the population undergoing renal replacement therapy continues to age, there is an increasing need to objectively assess biological versus choronological age and motor abilities of patients. This work contains much-needed scientific information and representative results of physical performance tests covering the domains of endurance, muscular strength, coordination, flexibility and balance. The reader will find the results presented numerically by age group and sex in comparison with representative results for healthy age-matched controls. This data can be used to compare individual measurement results and assess levels of physical fitness. In addition, important information is provided on the correct performance of motor tests and their most important characteristics.