Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5602038 | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery | 2017 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Following a 12 week augmented home exercise programme, most patients with intermittent claudication continued to significantly improve their walking distance and walking speed at 1 year compared with normal walking. Quality of life and ABPIs improved significantly after only 12 weeks and it is postulated that the improvement in ABPI was due to collateral development. These results justify the belief that an augmented home exercise programme will be as clinically effective as existing supervised exercise programmes, with the added benefits of lower cost and better compliance. Funding for a multicentre trial comparing an augmented home exercise programme with existing supervised exercise programme is now urgently required.
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Authors
C. Oakley, C. Spafford, J.D. Beard,