PAD Month Webinar: Support and Information for People Newly Diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease

PAD Month Webinar: Support and Information for People Newly Diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease

Boost your understanding of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) with our exclusive PAD Month Webinar, hosted by the Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures in partnership with the PAD Collaborative. This enlightening session is dedicated to those newly diagnosed with PAD, their caregivers, and anyone interested in vascular health.

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How to Buy Peripheral Artery Disease Exercise Equipment Online

How to Buy Peripheral Artery Disease Exercise Equipment Online

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a condition affecting millions of Americans. Understandably, there are a lot of different products out there to help treat symptoms, manage the disease, and assist with lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, and smoking cessation. And we’re lucky to have so much available to us through the Internet - thousands of products, devices, and services are available at the click of a button!

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Patient Spotlight Series: Shirley

Patient Spotlight Series: Shirley

In October 2022, Shirley started to feel pain in her left leg when she walked more than a few kilometers. Expecting to find out about an injury that would require physiotherapy, she was surprised when her doctor asked her to take off her shoe and sock to feel the pulse in her foot. Her doctor booked her a vascular ultrasound appointment, and Shirley was diagnosed with moderate PAD.

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Patient Spotlight Series: Jason

Patient Spotlight Series: Jason

In March 2023, at 44 years old, Jason started having calf and thigh pain. Within days, his toes became cold, his toenails turned purple, and his foot was pale. He went to the ER, where he received an ultrasound on his veins, leading to the discovery of a large clot. When Jason asked how this kind of clot could have formed, his surgeon guessed that Jason probably tore his popliteal artery years prior, thinking he had just pulled a muscle.

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Peripheral Artery Disease Patient: How Walking Saved My Life

Peripheral Artery Disease Patient: How Walking Saved My Life

Patient Blog by Vascular Cures’ Patient Partner Steve H. on his experience with the benefits of walking for patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). I was first diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease about 14 years ago. My first symptom was that I couldn’t walk more than two blocks without getting pain in my lower calf muscles, forcing me to stop and start again.

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How I Learned to Take Control of My Health

How I Learned to Take Control of My Health

I had never heard of Critical Limb Ischemia* before. I never thought in my wildest dreams that during a shopping spree I would end up in an ambulance. Or that a vascular surgeon would be softly explaining to me that my condition is extremely critical, life-threatening and… that it may lead to limb amputation. It was so devastating!

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