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Supervised exercise training as an adjunctive therapy for venous leg ulcers: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Venous leg ulcers are common, chronic wounds that are painful and reduce quality of life. Compression therapy is known to assist in the healing of venous leg ulceration. Supervised exercise training that targets an improvement in calf muscle pump function might be a useful adjunctive the...

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Autores principales: Tew, Garry A., Michaels, Jonathan, Crank, Helen, Middleton, Geoff, Gumber, Anil, Klonizakis, Markos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26445318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0963-z