Issue №20-2, 2021

Review article

The Role of Physical Therapy in the Combined Treatment of Patients with Lower Extremities Diabetic Angiopathies



1 ORCIDDenis V. Frolov

1 Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Moscow, Russian Federation


ABSTRACT

One of the most disabling complications of diabetes mellitus is angiopathy of the lower extremities. Diabetic polyneuropathy and diabetic foot syndrome are closely associated with vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, which significantly aggravate the course of the disease and contribute to high mortality. Diabetic polyneuropathy and diabetic foot syndrome are closely associated with the diabetes mellitus vascular complications that significantly aggravate the course of the disease and contribute to high mortality. Despite the improvement in the results of pharmacotherapy of diabetes mellitus, the problem of treating its vascular complications is far from being solved. Traditionally, therapeutic physical training is used among the methods of non-drug treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications. As a method of pathogenetic focus on many risk factors for the development of diabetes and its complications, physical therapy exercises contribute to the correction of the syndrome of hypodynamia, obesity, and muscle atrophy. At the same time, there is insufficient data on how exercise therapy affects the quality of life of patients, functional characteristics of walking and objective indicators of blood flow in the lower extremities. This review identifies the main approaches to the application, advantages and disadvantages of individual methods of therapeutic physical training in the correction of functional disorders in patients with lower extremities diabetic angiopathies. We can currently talk about the proven safety of the physical therapy use in patients with diabetic angiopathies. Meanwhile, the scientific data on the high efficiency of this method is still insufficient.


KEYWORDS: diabetes mellitus, diabetic angiopathy, training walking, treadmill test, physical therapy

Acknowledgments: The study had no sponsorship

Conflict of interest:: The authors declare no apparent or potential conflicts of interest related to the publication of this article

For citation: Frolov D.V. The Role of Physical Therapy in the Combined Treatment of Patients with Lower Extremities Diabetic Angiopathies (Literature Review). Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine. 2021; 20 (2): 80-87. https://doi.org/10.38025/2078-1962-2021-20-2-80-87

For correspondence: Denis V. Frolov, e-mail: frolomed@mail.ru



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