Is Yoga Good for PKD Patients

2014-03-18 08:50

Is yoga good for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) patients? Since yoga becomes a more and more popular physical exercise, so more and more people prefers to do yoga in their daily life. However, for PKD patients, in order to prevent the cyst rupture, they may need to do some proper exercise and prevent the exercises which can cause cyst rupture. In this article, we will take about whether yoga is good for PKD patients or not.

Yoga is a common physical exercise, which can help sublimate the mental and spirit, besides, it can also help improve the immune system, improve digestive system and strengthen the cardiovascular system for people and lots of other benefits. This is why yoga becomes more and more popular among people. However, this is not mean all the people can do yoga as a physical exercise.

For PKD patients, in order to prevent the cyst rupture, they should be careful when they do yoga exercise. Yoga can be divided into several types, such as bikram yoga, power yoga, ashtanga yoga etc, and some yoga postures are difficult to do and it is hard for people to finish. And these postures will be harmful for PKD patients, because they may cause kidney cyst rupture.

As we know, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease with numerous cysts in kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and enlarged over time. When the kidney cyst is in a certain size, it can rupture easily when patients do some postures such as bend down, stretch the waist and knock on kidneys. And the cyst rupture will cause severe infections for patients and cause further damage to kidneys, and increase the progression of kidney failure.

From above, we can know that PKD patients need to be careful when they do yoga, and they need to avoid the postures which will stress the waist and cause cyst rupture. They are advised to do some gentle posture, which can also function well for PKD patients. So PKD patients need to take care if they want to do yoga, and first ask the advice of their doctors who can give the most professional advice for them.

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