The study was taken for determining the effects of the resistance exercise training on the bone metabolism in the heart transplant recipients. Osteoporosis often complicates the heart transplantation. There isn’t a preventive strategy which is accepted for the glucocorticoid-induced the loss of bone. There were about sixteen people who were male recipients for the heart transplant. They were assigned to a resistance exercise group which trained for about six months or the control group which didn’t perform the resistance exercise.
The bone mineral density of the whole body, the femur neck and also the lumbar spine was put under measurement by the dual-energy x- ray absorptiometry before and also two months after the transplantation and also after three and six months of the resistance exercise or the control period. This exercise regiment had lumbar extension exercise which was performed one day a week and the variable resistance exercises which were performed two days a week (Kirk, Knechtle, Larsen, Madsen, Pearson & Webber, 2014).
The outcomes were the pretransplantation baseline values for the regional BMD was not different in the control and also training groups. The BMD of the whole body, in the femur neck and also in the lumbar vertebra had gone down below the baseline at two months after the transplantation in the control and in the training groups. Also the BMD of the control group did not change for the two months post transplantation levels (Kirk et al., 2014). The resistance exercise is osteogenic and it must be initiated very early after the heart transplant.
The precision error is a very important limitation in people who used the bone densitometry. This is because the annual rate of the BMD change is within the precision error of the bone densitometry and it is very hard to assess the BMD gains or the losses within fewer than many years accurately. This study is very important as we know that the resistance exercise training will restore the BMD in the heart transplant recipients. It is also suggested that the resistance exercise can be very effective for osteoporosis prevention. The resistance exercise also shown that there is slow bone loss and there is also an increase in regional BMD.
Reference
Kirk, D.A. Knechtle, J. S. Larsen, P.C. Madsen, C.J. Pearson, C.T. and Webber, A. S. (2014). Textbook of Organ Transplantation Set. New Jersey, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
