Abstract

Patients treated with dialysis survive longer nowadays which has led to increasing number of already numerous musculoskeletal complications – Musculoskeletal System Disorders (MSD) in dialyzed population. The authors hereby submit a survey abstract describing musculoskeletal system disorders of dialysis patients which consists of items from researches carried out and published mainly abroad. The purpose of this study was to find out the frequency of MSD in hemodialysis patients. The ascertained frequency of diagnosed MSD in the tested group (N=27, 16 men/11 women, age range of 28-86, percent occurrence equals to 81.5 percent) was statistically compared with the frequency in the normal population. The functional condition of the locomotor system, detected by means of clinical – mainly physiotherapeutic investigation (kinesiologic analysis etc.), was compared with the results of the foreign studies being discussed. The higher incidence of MSD in the monitored group was proved in comparison with population of the Czech Republic (p<0.05). The most frequent diagnose was arthrosis and the back pain was revealed as the most common symptom. Dialysis patients can be labled as a special group of patients with an evident high frequency of certain MSD that requires an appropriate approach considering the physiotherapeutic intervention to standard renal medical care. Verf.-Referat (geändert)