Supervised exercise training as an adjunct therapy for venous leg ulcers: a randomized controlled feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are typically painful and heal slowly. Compression therapy offers high healing rates; however, improvements are not usually sustained. Exercise is a low-cost, low-risk and effective strategy for improving physical and mental health. Little is known about the feasibility and efficacy of supervised exercise training used in combination with compression therapy patients with VLUs.

Objectives

To assess the feasibility of a 12-week supervised exercise programme as an adjunct therapy to compression in patients with VLUs.

Methods

This was a two-centre, two-arm, parallel-group, randomized feasibility trial. Thirty-nine patients with venous ulcers were recruited and randomized 1 : 1 either to exercise (three sessions weekly) plus compression

SUBMITTER: Klonizakis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001633 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature