{"id":476380,"date":"2026-03-15T04:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:43:19","slug":"kidney-disease-app-helped-me-to-walk-says-durham-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476380\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kidney disease app helped me to walk&#8217;, says Durham woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denholm, who is partially sighted, said the tool had been a massive help to her as she had long struggled with her legs and hips. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The app involves talking to a fitness coach over the phone who then suggests which virtual exercise classes she should take part in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The instructions are so clear that even if I was having a bad day and my eyesight wasn&#8217;t great, I can still hear the instructions and do the class,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said having the fitness coach and doing online exercises with other people had made it easier to be consistent with exercising. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just pushes you a little bit more,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had used the tool for about seven weeks now and she could walk around Durham now without walking poles for about an hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m building up my strength and hope in the future to challenge myself again with a few hikes,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pilot&#8217;s full results are due in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denholm, who is partially sighted, said the tool had been a massive help to her as she had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}