Effects of exercise prescribed at different levels of claudication pain on walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Background: Peripheral artery disease affects over 236 million people globally and the classic symptom is intermittent claudication (IC) which is associated with reduction in physical activity. The evidence that supervised exercise programmes (SEPs) improve pain-free and maximal walking distance is...

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Main Authors: Stefan T. Birkett, Jonathan Sinclair, Sally A. Seed, Sean Pymer, Edward Caldow, Lee Ingle, Amy E. Harwood, Anselm Egun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/17539447221108817