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What is Peripheral Arterial Disease Rehab?

Most of us take the ability to walk for granted, but for people who experience leg pain, everyday activities such as walking the dog or picking up the mail can be difficult.

In Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), the arteries carrying blood to the legs are affected. As the PAD becomes more severe, not enough oxygen-rich blood reaches the legs and pain develops when walking. This painful condition is called intermittent claudication.

Risk factors

Risk factors for intermittent claudication include:

• smoking
• high cholesterol
• diabetes
• obesity
• high blood pressure
• increasing age
• heredity

Who can benefit from PAD Rehab?

If you have intermittent claudication, and/or have undergone a procedure to treat PAD (such as femorial bypass surgery or stenting), you may benefit from this program. Speak with your doctor to see if this program is right for you.

What does Peripheral Arterial Disease Rehab at Rice include?

The PAD Rehab program takes place in the Cardiac Rehab Center on the second level of the Lakeland Health Center at Second Street and Trott Avenue, across from Rice Memorial Hospital.

If you participate in the PAD program, you will receive exercise therapy, education and support from the Cardiac Rehab staff. You learn about PAD and ways to treat it. You participate in two exercise sessions per week, which consist of a warm-up, 30 minutes of exercise, followed by a cool down. You follow an individual exercise prescription put together by the Cardiac Rehab staff. Your heart rate (pulse) is monitored, with weight, exercise data, and progress notes recorded at each exercise session.

For more information contact:

Randy Kobienia, MS, EP, CES, RCEP, Exercise Physiologist, Adult Fitness
rkob@rice.willmar.mn.us
320.231.8770