Exercise Training Study of Patients With Claudicatio Intermittens
Randomized Clinical Trial on the Effects of Home-based Five Plus Exercise Training
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
100 participants
Jan 1, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The aim of the study is to evaluate whether walking capacity in patients with intermittent claudication is improved more by home-based 5+ exercise training than by current recommendations of daily walking.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- Pain in the calves after 300 m, or less measured on a treadmill
- Stable symptoms last 6 months or more
- The pain must be gone within 5 minutes after the patients stop walking
- Ankle-Brachial index at 0.7 or lower at rest
- Using statins and antiplatelet drugs since at least 3 months
- age\> 18 years
- Signed consent
Exclusion Criteria13
- pain in the hips or elsewhere outside the calves while walking
- Remaining pain more than 5 minutes after stopped walking.
- Impossible to compress the arteries while measruing ABI or ABI lower than 0.4
- Use of statins and antiplatelet drugs less than 3 months
- symptoms less than 6 months
- Diabetes measured with HbA1c being over 48 mmol/mol (6%)
- Revascularisation the last 6 months
- Pain in the calves after longer than 300 m measured on a treadmill
- Reduced mobility in the ankles
- Reduced physical ability to perform a test on a treadmill.
- Age less than 18 years
- General conditions that impairs the ability to take part in a training study including Obesity, KOLS, heart disease, arthrosis, inflammatory joint diseases .
- No Signed consent
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Interventions
The patients are randomized to either walking 30 minutes 3 times a week or lifting the body to a tip toe position three times a day until pain in the claves and then add another five liftings before ending the session
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NCT06448390