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Incentives and coaching offer promise for improving supervised exercise therapy completion in claudicants
Study findings were presented during Saturday, June 22’s Plenary Session 7 support current vascular guidelines advocating for effective supervised exercise therapy (SET) prior to offering vascular intervention for patients with intermittent claudication. That is the belief of Colin Cleary, PhD,…
Veterans with claudication who undergo revascularization ‘significantly more likely to have major amputation than those who do not’
Patients within the Veterans Affairs Administration healthcare system who underwent an intervention for intermittent claudication (IC) were consistently at three-to-four times greater risk of undergoing subsequent amputation compared to those who did not, researchers at Stanford University report. Furthermore, Intervention…
Intermittent claudication and exercise therapy: A poor SET-up
Many of you may have already heard about the controversial Comparative Billing Reports (CBRs) that have been received by some of our vascular surgery colleagues. In case you haven’t, this is your chance to catch up and to prepare for…
Evidence suggests wearable activity monitors could benefit intermittent claudication patients
There is some evidence to indicate that the inclusion of wearable activity monitors in home-based exercise therapy improves walking ability and quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication. This is the main finding of a systematic review that recently appeared…
Technology drives vascular future
Decades ago, “picture” phones were an idea straight out of science fiction. As the saying goes, the future is now. FaceTime and Skype are common; similar technology permits doctors to visit patients via telemedicine. In other health technological advancements, “wearables”…