ABSTRACT
A ambulatory physical therapeutic rehabilitation by means of interval-run-gymnastic-therapy was examined by a prospective study of 43 patients with peripheral arterial disease of the legs and was estimated as practicable. Improvements of walk distance, lengthenings of the pain times in the standardized move up and down-test, decreases of the blood-pressure gradients by ultrasonic Doppler measurements, shortenings of the half-life periods of xenon-clearance, improvements of the metabolism of lactate, improvements of the parameter of metabolism of lipids and uric acid were proved. Successes of therapy were not proved by oscillography and venous occlusion plethysmography. The expense was registered by the loss of working time and discussed.
Subject(s)
Arterial Occlusive Diseases/rehabilitation , Physical Exertion , Physical Therapy Modalities , Ambulatory Care , Arterial Occlusive Diseases/diagnosis , Combined Modality Therapy , Humans , Intermittent Claudication/rehabilitation , Male , Middle Aged , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
Searching for a possibility of an effective therapy of disturbances of peripheral arterial blood supply (stage I and II), the authors examined a medicamentously untreated group of patients as well as a comparable group of patients which was pretreated with propranolol. The two groups of patients performed twice a week an interval run exercise. Under the three-month training therapy in the two groups significant systolic and diastolic blood pressure reductions as well as statistically ascertained shortenings of the xenon-133-half-value time under working conditions and enlargements of the average functional vascular cross section A appeared. The distance of the intermittent claudication and the standardized moving up and down test prolonged. An influence on the microcirculation caused by propranolol could not be proved. The results are discussed on the basis of literature.
