Increasing exercise tolerance of persons limited by claudication pain using polestriding

• Published in: Journal of vascular surgery Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 887 - 893
• Main Authors: Langbein, W.Edwin, Collins, Eileen G., Orebaugh, Cynthia, Maloney, Christine, Williams, Karla J., Littooy, Fred N., Edwards, Lonnie C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2002
• Subjects: Aged; Exercise Test; Exercise Therapy; Exercise Tolerance - physiology; Female; Humans; Intermittent Claudication - physiopathology; Intermittent Claudication - therapy; Leg - blood supply; Leg - physiopathology; Male; Middle Aged; Pain Measurement; Peripheral Vascular Diseases - complications; Peripheral Vascular Diseases - physiopathology; Prospective Studies; Time Factors
• ISSN: 0741-5214; 1097-6809
• DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.123756

Objective: The efficacy of polestriding exercise (walking with modified ski poles with a movement pattern similar to cross-country skiing) to increase exercise tolerance of persons with intermittent claudication pain caused by peripheral arterial disease was tested in this 24-week prospective random...