Dear Dr. Roach: I’m an 88-year-old woman in good health except that I have had a lot of leg and back pain in the past two or so years. I had spinal stenosis, and I have arthritis as well. A vascular ...
Peripheral artery disease (PAD), sometimes also called peripheral vascular disease (PVD), is a circulation disorder that slowly gets worse over time. Calcium and fat materials build up inside the ...
1 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 2 School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, ...
CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...
The Flemish Study on Environment, Genes and Health Outcomes is part of the European Project on Genes in Hypertension 8 and is embedded in the InGenious HyperCare Network of Excellence. From August ...
If you’re a healthy person without any circulatory issues, blood flows to and from your extremities, like your legs and feet, without any problems. But in some people, the arteries begin to narrow, ...
I had an interesting conversation recently regarding leg pain. A friend confided that her husband has been complaining about leg pain in his calf muscles when he has to walk any distance. At first, ...
Checking your heart rate can be done manually at the radial, carotid, pedal, or brachial arteries, or with devices like chest strap monitors, fitness trackers, blood pressure machines, and smartphone ...
Peripheral artery disease, sometimes called peripheral arterial disease or PAD, is a condition in which your arteries are narrowed and can’t carry as much blood to the outer parts of your body, like ...