Intermittent claudication and physical exercise: effectiveness of a home-based...

• Author(s): Tomás, Mª Teresa ; Encarnação, Ana ; Quintans, Dora ; Gonçalves, Luís ; Carolino, Elisabete ; Coutinho, Isabel ; Medeiros, Duarte
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/290
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Fisioterapia; Reabilitação; Claudicação intermitente; Exercício físico
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) as a high incidence in general population and 12% to 20% of population with more than 60 years has already clinical symptoms, such as intermittent claudication (IC), pain, loss of strength and functional incapacity. There are already some studies who refer the possible positive effects of physical exercise in functional consequences of PAD.