Exercise therapy

Nehler MR, Hiatt WR. Exercise therapy for claudication. Ann Vase Surg 1999 13 109-1 14. 

After appropriate exercise therapy and therapeutic lifestyle changes have been implemented, patients who continue to experience severe intermittent claudication may benefit from additional pharmacologic therapy with cilostazol. 

Interactions of Pulmonary Toxic Inhalants and Exercise Therapy... 

With electromagnetic flowmetry and Doppler ultrasound (55) it is possible to confirm and quantitate patient complaints, follow the disease progression, and document improvement following pharmacotherapy, exercise therapy, percutaneous endovascular interventions or arterial reconstructive interventions. Limb scintigraphy with thallium-201 presents advantages and great potential for clinical applications (56). 

The treatment of claudication due to LEAD is multifacted aggressive risk factor modification, regression therapy of the atheromas, pharmacotherapy, exercise therapy, endovascular transcatheter therapeutic interventions, angiogenesis, and vascular graft procedures. 

Exercise therapy and a heart healthy diet should be preconditions for any long-term pharmacotherapy. A beneficial diet for every vascular... 

Exercise Therapy for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease... 

Rationale for Exercise and Therapy for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease Patients Exercise Therapy Findings Potential Mechanisms Designing an Exercise Program References... 

Feinburg RL, Gregory RT, Wheeler JR, Snyder SO, Gayle RG, Parent FN, Patterson RB. The ischemic window A method for the objective quantication of the training effect in exercise therapy for intermittent claudication. J Vase Surg 1992 16 244-250. 

These minimal requirements of physician capability hold equally true in the prescription of exercise as a therapeutic modahty. All physicians encounter patients who are voluntarily pursuing some form of exercise or for whom an exercise program should be prescribed. This chapter addresses the primary care physician s use and prescription of exercise therapy for muscrrloskeletal sfunctiorts. 

Physicians treating musculoskeletal disfunctions should use some form of screening to assist in prescribing effective exercise therapy. Numerous other tests are available, in addition to the ones described here. 

The exercises described can be used to increase regional cervical motion (muscle stretch, extensibility), to increase regional strength (muscle contractility), or to restore strucmral symmetry. Many cervical muscle fimctions and structural changes involve the thoracic region. It is suggested that the physician review the section in Chapter 9, Exercise Therapy, and Chapter 44, Exercise Therapy for the Thoracic Spine, when writing an exercise prescription for the cervical area. 

FIG. 33-1 Exercise therapy for the cervical spine forward bending. 

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