Exercise With Vascular Disease?

Marathon training is definitely helping my right calf claudication.

It will keep you sane, for a start!

Look and learn!

If you have a repaired aortic aneurysm, exercise, done right, will keep your aorta strong. This could be critical for an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, especially where those hooks are holding it in place by your kidneys. My hooks have done their job for eight years – how’s them apples. Think about it. Yes! Exercise is actually exercising your aorta!

If you have vascular stenosis, as I do in my right leg, exercise will increase collateral circulation. In fact, my vascular surgeon, Mark Farber, recommended this as the best treatment, due to the dangers of angioplasty below the knee.

If you have cardiovascular stents, just read Bob Scott’s story, above.

All that said, do it right, following a benefit-risk assessment, with all the input you can get.

Wishing you happy trails,

kev aka FitOldDog