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Supervised exercise therapy versus home-based exercise therapy versus walking advice for intermittent claudication.
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SUBMITTER: Hageman D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6513337 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Supervised exercise therapy versus home-based exercise therapy versus walking advice for intermittent claudication.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20180406
<h4>Background</h4>Although supervised exercise therapy (SET) provides significant symptomatic benefit for patients with intermittent claudication (IC), it remains an underutilized tool. Widespread implementation of SET is restricted by lack of facilities and funding. Structured home-based exercise therapy (HBET) with an observation component (e.g., exercise logbooks, pedometers) and just walking advice (WA) are alternatives to SET. This is the second update of a review first published in 2006.< ...[more]