Walking Training Improves Systemic and Local Pathophysiological Processes in Intermittent Claudication

Barriers and facilitators for walking in individuals with intermittent claudication.

This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators associated with walking for exercise among people who experience intermittent claudication. Fifteen individuals (7 men and 8 women) participated in 3 focus groups that were tape-recorded and content analyzed. A social-cognitive framework was used to categorize barriers and facilitators as those related to the person, to the activity, or to ...

Therapies for improving walking distance in intermittent claudication

Estimation of walking distance in intermittent claudication: need for standardization.

Intermittent claudication is the most striking symptom of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, a disease mostly confined to the lower limb arteries and characterized by ischaemic processes in one or both legs and important reductions of the patients’ walking distance. In a large number of patients significant reduction of symptoms can be achieved by correction of associated risk factors, part...

Intermittent claudication

Peripheral arterial disease is a common health problem that globally affects over 200 million individuals, and intermittent claudication (IC) is the most common symptomatic presentation. The leg symptoms in IC are provoked by walking exercise and can be alleviated by medical intervention, exercise training and invasive vascular interventions (revascularization). The quality of evidence for inva...

Exercise and Intermittent Claudication

Four men with arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO) were exercised on a treadmill on 4 different days to determine their maximal walking time (MWT) and the point at which their claudication pain (CPT) began. Each subject was exercised at 60%, 75%, and 90% of his MWT to determine the effect of work intensity on the systolic blood pressure at the ankle (AP). To measure the effect of exercise repeated...