How Your Body Grows New Arteries Around Blockages | Dr. Joe Griffin

When I walk my legs hurt. When I rest I feel better. This is textbook Peripheral Artery Disease. Poor circulation in the legs, which impacts 1 in 5 people over age 60! 1 in 3 diabetics over age 50. The good news is, if caught early, walking is the best medicine. Your body has a collateral network of blood vessels that lay fairly dormant until they are needed to meet new demand for blood to flow to your feet. Dr. Joe Griffin explains how walking helps to accelerate the process of growth to create natural bypasses around leg artery blockages.

To learn more about PAD and its FREE My Steps Walking Program, designed to improve circulation, call the Global PAD Association's Leg Saver Hotline at 1-833-PAD-LEGS. You can also go to PADtest.org to find a testing site near you.

Go With The Flow is a series sponsored by Reflow Medical, which makes devices designed to help physicians improve circulation in patients with advanced stage peripheral artery disease patients known as Critical Limb Ischemia. Reflow Medical is sponsoring this series to emphasize the importance of CLTI prevention through critical lifestyle modifications, especially fitness. Each week Go With The Flow will offer information that helps patients to improve their prognosis naturally.

Disclaimer:

The Go With The Flow series is for educational and informational purposes only.

Information provided does not necessarily reflect the views of the Global PAD Association or Reflow Medical.

Reflow Medial is a sponsor for this series offered through the Global PAD Association and does not have influence over its content.

The information and advice offered are not a substitute for medical advice from your own supervising physician.

Do NOT act on any information provided in this series without the explicit consent from your healthcare team.

If you are experiencing leg pain, leg cramps, neuropathy, have toe or foot wounds that won't heal, ask your physician to test for Peripheral Artery Disease.

Go to PADhelp.org or call the Leg Saver Hotline for additional information about PAD.

If you think you are having a medical emergency call your local emergency number or go to the nearest emergency department.

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