INFLUENCE OF EXERCISE ON HIV PATIENTS

Influence of Exercise on HIV Patients



Influence of Exercise on HIV Patients

a. Statistics and this special population group; provide general statistics regarding these clients/patients

The profile of HIV infection is constantly changing. Although some time was considered a disease progression of death among people with access to antiretroviral treatment, HIV can be now a disease an uncertain natural and some may be a chronic disease can be treated. This increased chronicity of HIV infection has been reflected in a higher prevalence of disabilities among the population infected with HIV. Therefore, the needs of these individuals have increasingly included the management of impairments (problems in body function or structure as a significant deviation or loss, such as pain or weakness), activity limitations (Difficulties an individual may have in executing activities such as inability to walk) and restrictions on participation (problems an individual may experience in terms of participation in life situations such as inability to work) (Agostini, 2009). Exercise is a key strategy used by people with HIV / AIDS and rehabilitation professionals to address these issues. It showed that resistance exercises improve the function cardiovascular and psychological status in seronegative populations.

b. The pathophysiology behind this disease, condition, injury. How did this come to be? What is happening in the body with this specialized population group?

The direct consequences of HIV replication in the body is slow and gradual decrease in the number of CD4 lymphocytes for several years. Early in infection, viral replication is low and the production of thymic CD4 compensates for losses associated with the cell lysis or cytotoxic effects on infected cells. The specific immune response controls viral replication partially because it leaves a residual level different for each patient can be estimated by the plasma HIV RNA levels (a few hundred to a few million virus). For each subject, a balance specific immuno-virological established from the primary infection. Stage AIDS and end of disease, viral replication is high and is more controlled: the loss of CD4 are not compensated. So gradually he moved a quantitative deficit in CD4 plus a qualitative deficit of many functions of the immune system leading to immune deficiency constitutes AIDS. In a way, we can say that HIV has found refuge "ideal" in the most important cells of the immune system CD4 memory T cells to long life and are protected by the immune system itself, since its role is to maintain immune memory. In addition, the persistence of the virus in the body is not only viral replication in cells that leads to productive infection of new cells but also cell division of memory cells containing provirus.

Infection of the body is final, it will persist throughout the life of the infected individual. The balance of immuno-virological each patient is reflected in a relatively stable rate of virus even if it is making steady progress as and when the CD4 count decreases. Storing continuous and regular provirus in cells infected with latent long life is a viral reservoir ...