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You get the ballon. You got the stent. Or you got the bypass. Blood moves. The scan looks good at the follow-up. Everybody shakes hands and you go home. Then what? Eighty-six of you have had a procedure. We asked what your symptoms were before the first one and what they are now. Rest pain, the kind that hits once your leg is finally still and wakes you at two in the morning: 37 of you had it before. Twenty-eight have it now. Wounds and gangrene: 25 of you before. Ten now. Nu

Say that sentence to a vascular surgeon and you'll have their full attention in about four seconds. It's the textbook presentation of peripheral artery disease. Blood gets through fine while you're sitting still. The moment the muscle asks for more, the narrowed artery can't deliver, the calf seizes up, and a few minutes of standing still clears it. Intermittent claudication. Vascular specialists hear that sentence and reach for a blood pressure cuff. Sixty-six of you said th

Michael Lepp spent fifteen years as Senior Athletic Advisor at Joe Gibbs Racing, building the pit crews that won championships. The whole time he was also writing exercise prescriptions for cardiac and PAD patients and running a supervised walking group he called the Dawn Patrol. Forty years of doing both at once. When he came on The Heart of Innovation, he told us the training plan he used to write for a PAD patient and the program, was similar to the one he built to win cha