A study to assess the effectiveness of Intradialytic stretching exercise on Muscle Cramps among patients undergoing Hemodialysis in Morris Mathias Hospital at Kanyakumari District

The study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of Intradialytic Stretching Exercise on Muscle Cramps among patients undergoing Hemodialysis in Morris Mathias hospital, Nagercoil at Kanyakumari Dist. Objective The over all aim of the research was to assess the effect of intradialytic stretching exercise in reducing muscle cramp among hemodialysis patients Research Methodology The researcher adopted a quantitative approach with one group pre testpost test design. Sixty patients with muscle cramp were selected, by using convenience sampling technique. Pretest was done with modified ashworthscale.Intradialytic stretching exercise was given for 20 minutes.Immediately after Intradialytic Stretching Exercise posttest was done by checking the muscle cramp of the patient with the same modified ashworth scale. The collected data were analyzed based on the above mentioned objective using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the study The study identified that the Intradialytic stretching exercise was effective in reducing muscle cramp among hemodialysis patients.It was found that there was a significant reduction of muscle cramp among hemodialysis patients after Intradialytic stretching exercise. The ‘paired t’ value was found to be 30.34,df=59,P