A 12 Week Home Exercise Programme Augmented with Nordic Pole Walking Improves the Quality of Life and ABPIs of Claudicants. Most Patients Continue to Use Their Poles and Improve Their Walking Distance at One Year
29 Mar 2025
Supervised Exercise Programmes for claudicants can have problems with cost, availability and compliance. These problems can be avoided with Home Exercise Programmes , but these may not be as clinically effective. Our previous RCT demonstrated that a 12 week Home Exercise Programmes augmented with Nordic Pole Walking (NPW) significantly improved walking distance compared to Normal Walking (NW).
Long-term compliance was excellent: 98% of the patients in the Nordic Pole Walking group were still walking with poles at 12 months, compared to 74% of the control (NW) group. The NPW group increased their mean weekly distance (WD) to 17.5 km by 12 months, with a mean speed of 4.2 km/h. The control group increased their WD from 4.2 km to 5.6 km and speed to 3.3 km/h. The QoL of claudicants participating in a 12 week Home Exercise Programmes augmented with NPW improved dramatically. The significant improvement in ABPI suggested in our previous study has also been confirmed. Participants continue to improve their walking distance and speed at one year with excellent compliance. Their improvement and compliance is much better than that reported by many Supervised Exercise Programmes, with lower costs. Our results justify a multi-centre RCT comparing existing Supervised Exercise Programmes with a Home Exercise Programmes augmented by Nordic Pole Walking .
Long-term compliance was excellent: 98% of the patients in the Nordic Pole Walking group were still walking with poles at 12 months, compared to 74% of the control (NW) group. The NPW group increased their mean weekly distance (WD) to 17.5 km by 12 months, with a mean speed of 4.2 km/h. The control group increased their WD from 4.2 km to 5.6 km and speed to 3.3 km/h. The QoL of claudicants participating in a 12 week Home Exercise Programmes augmented with NPW improved dramatically. The significant improvement in ABPI suggested in our previous study has also been confirmed. Participants continue to improve their walking distance and speed at one year with excellent compliance. Their improvement and compliance is much better than that reported by many Supervised Exercise Programmes, with lower costs. Our results justify a multi-centre RCT comparing existing Supervised Exercise Programmes with a Home Exercise Programmes augmented by Nordic Pole Walking .
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