NCT00654810

Exercise Rehabilitation of Younger and Older People With Claudication

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute on Aging (NIA) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of age and the effect of exercise intensity of rehabilitation programs on claudication pain symptoms and leg circulation of younger and older patients with intermittent claudication.

Detailed description

Thirty-one patients randomized to low-intensity exercise rehabilitation and 33 patients randomized to high-intensity exercise rehabilitation completed the study. The 6-month exercise rehabilitation programs consisted of intermittent treadmill walking to near maximal claudication pain three days per week at either 40% (low-intensity group) or 80% (high-intensity group) of maximal exercise capacity. Total work performed in the two training regimens was similar by having the patients in the low-intensity group exercise for a longer duration than patients in the high-intensity group. Measurements of physical function, peripheral circulation, and health-related quality of life were obtained on each patient before and after the rehabilitation programs.

Conditions

• Intermittent Claudication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Walking Exercise	Intermittent treadmill walking to near maximal claudication pain three days per week

Timeline

• Start date: 1994-02-01
• Primary completion: 2000-01-01
• Completion: 2000-01-01
• First posted: 2008-04-09
• Last updated: 2008-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States