Don’t stop walking: the in-home rehabilitation program for peripheral artery disease patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Internal and emergency medicine Vol. 16; no. 5; pp. 1307 - 1315
• Main Authors: Lamberti, Nicola, Straudi, Sofia, Manfredini, Roberto, De Giorgi, Alfredo, Gasbarro, Vincenzo, Zamboni, Paolo, Manfredini, Fabio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.08.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Ankle; Blood pressure; Body weight; Chi-Square Distribution; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - complications; COVID-19 - physiopathology; COVID-19 - therapy; COVID-19 : diagnosis; EM - Original; Exercise Therapy - methods; Exercise Therapy - statistics & numerical data; Female; Home Care Services - standards; Home Care Services - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Internal Medicine; Interviews as Topic; Male; management and prognosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Mobility; Pain; Pandemics; Patients; Peripheral Arterial Disease - complications; Peripheral Arterial Disease - therapy; Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation - methods; Rehabilitation - statistics & numerical data; Risk factors; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Statistics, Nonparametric; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vascular diseases; Walking; Walking - physiology; Walking - statistics & numerical data; Peripheral artery disease; Mobility; Exercise; Rehabilitation; Cardiovascular diseases; Risk factors

We studied the outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients enrolled in a structured in-home walking program right before the lockdown due to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic emergency, to determine whether this intervention ensured the maintenance of mobility even in the case of movement restriction...