Nordic Poles Immediately Improve Walking Distance in Patients with Intermittent Claudication

Abstract

These results show that NPW immediately enables patients with intermittent claudication to walk further with less pain, despite a higher workload. NPW might also be a useful exercise strategy for improving the cardiovascular fitness of patients with intermittent claudication.

Nordic Walking - A New Form of Adapted Physical Activity (A Literature Review)

“…All of authors dealing with rehabilitation issues [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] underline the necessity of doing additional research. However, it seems that current scientific evidence, especially in the areas of cardiology [21-23, 28, 29], confirm the usefulness of NW in the rehabilitation programmes of patients after acute coronary syndrome, with intermittent claudication, with coronary artery disease, and after myocardial infarction.…”

“…there were three papers that met the inclusion criteria. [3,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], ten papers were on the use of NW in rehabilitation [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and three items concerned biomechanical aspects of NW [2,30,31]. One publication was a case study of NW used for treating of a sacral stress fracture that resulted from training overload [32].…”

“…the authors underline that applying NW (a 2.5 km walk with poles interrupted by a 5-minute active rest halfway through) as a supplementary activity to the standard rehabilitation programme (general fitness exercises and cycle ergometer training) may help to meet the minimal caloric load requirement of training (350-600 kcal for a daily train- F -female, M -male, NW -Nordic Walking, HR -heart rate, VO 2max -maximal oxygen uptake * no data ing session) established for the prevention of secondary cardiovascular disease [22]. Oakley et al [23] proved that men aged 57-79 with intermittent claudication can cover a significantly ( p ≤ 0.001) longer distance both without pain (130 m) and with pain (285 m) while walking with poles compared to walking without poles (77 m, 206 m, respectively). Moreover, at the maximal walking distance, patients experienced significantly ( p = 0.002) less pain when using poles, assessed subjectively on a 10 point borg scale (borg cR-10), than when walking without poles (4.3 ± 0.5; 5.6 ± 0.5, respectively).…”

“…Previous studies (tab. 2) have mostly explored the effectiveness of NW in cardiac rehabilitation programmes for individuals after an acute coronary syndrome [21,22], with intermittent claudication [23], with coronary artery disease [28] and after myocardial infraction [29]. Kocur et al [21] analyzed the exercise capacity and physical fitness between three groups of patients who had just begun their rehabilitation after an acute coronary syndrome, i.e.…”

Effects of Nordic walking on Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials

“…Among the variety of physical exercises, Nordic walking (NW) is trending as an aerobic activity because it includes the aid of two sticks that favor interplay of arms and legs 22 . Recent evidence suggests that NW is a therapeutic modality for several conditions such as peripheral arterial disease 23 , chronic low back pain 24 , type 2 diabetes mellitus 25 , heart failure 26 and PD 27 . The effects of NW on patients with PD are related primarily to increased aerobic fitness, increased muscle strength and improved motor coordination 28 .…”