I am a patient with questions and one of them is:
Is cycling better or healthier for a lung patient with Right Heart Failure than walking.
Based on medical terminology I clearly don’t understand – it APPEARS to say so to this patient…based on the paper I blogged on and the paper I found using the Google search for: oxyhemoglobin desaturation.
“Oxyhemoglobin desaturation can be quite severe and can even lead to damage to vital organs, particularly the heart, to the point of being life-threatening.3”
Identifying Sleep Disordered Breathing in Neuromuscular Disorder Patients
by Joshua Benditt, MD, and Louis Boitano, MS, RRT
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is one thing, add bone on bone left hip and a person has to really fight to move it and I’m doing in the pool what I can’t do ‘on land’ easily – leg up and loosen and build muscle around that hip so I can ride again. One day the muscling should support it and make it comfortable enough to ride my recumbent trikes again.
I KNOW it will work because when I had physical therapy last year, the personable and talented Anna Marx at Kitsap Physical Therapy in Silverdale put me on a machine I could not only tolerate – a recumbent elliptical – over time I actually loosened up enough where I could and did – close my eyes and built speed and a rhythm on that machine – exactly like riding a recumbent trike, a horse…without the pain of the bone on bone left hip!
I’ve begun working out four days a week with an amazing professional swim instructor and I hope and expect to regain much of the function I lost. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain. It appears to be working – a ‘study’ in itself. More later.
That said, what about my question:
Is cycling better or healthier for a lung patient with right heart failure than walking?
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BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibit greater oxyhemoglobin desaturation during walking than with cycling. The purpose of this investigation was to investigate differences in ventilatory responses and gas exchange as proposed mechanisms for this observation.
Read more: http://pugetsoundblogs.com/copd-and-other-stuff/#ixzz1DTzzcGaW
Read more: http://pugetsoundblogs.com/copd-and-other-stuff/#ixzz1DTzg8nOT
“Oxyhemoglobin desaturation can be quite severe and can even lead to damage to vital organs, particularly the heart, to the point of being life-threatening.3”
Identifying Sleep Disordered Breathing in Neuromuscular Disorder Patients
by Joshua Benditt, MD, and Louis Boitano, MS, RRT
Joshua Benditt, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. He is also director of respiratory care services, Northwest Assisted Breathing Center, University of Washington Medical Center. He can be reached at benditt@u.washington.edu. Louis Boitano, MS, RRT, is codirector of the Northwest Assisted Breathing Center, University of Washington Medical Center. Boitano can be reached at boitano@u.washington.edu.
The symptoms of sleep disordered breathing in patients with neuromuscular disease can be subtle, but once recognized and treated, symptoms can improve.
http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/issues/articles/2007-01_03.asp
I don’t know how this all fits together for us – I also have sleep apnea and sleep with a bi-pap and concentrator bleed in to the bi-pap.
More later… Sharon O’Hara
