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PAD Management Program
Henry Gibbs, 58, is a ballroom dance instructor, but he was forced to hang up his dancing shoes when a circulation condition, common among older adults, caused severe leg pain and cramping. My legs were so bad I couldn’t do anything, says Gibbs, of Saginaw, Mich. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t cut the grass. I was a dance instructor who couldn’t dance.
Gibbs came to the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center where he was diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease, a common condition affecting about 20 million Americans.
Peripheral arterial disease is similar in many ways to heart disease where atherosclerotic plaque builds up in the arteries of the legs, says Paul Michael Grossman, M.D., an interventional cardiologist at the U-M Cardiovascular Center.
This can be caused by a build-up of cholesterol, can be related to risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, hypertension and having elevated cholesterol and there are genetic factors that also probably play a role in development and progression of PAD, he says.
The difference between peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, and heart disease is the blockages are outside the heart, usually in the legs. While PAD itself is not life threatening, it does greatly affect quality of life, and without proper medical management can lead to heart attack or stroke.
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