Handgrip Training in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease

Intervention period will last 12 weeks. Experimental group will perform three sessions per week of home-based handgrip exercise. The exercise protocol will consist of eight sets of bilateral handgrip contraction of two minutes of isometric contraction, with 30% of maximum voluntary contraction, and two minutes of interval between sets. Patients will receive a diary to record the sessions and report difficulties during the training. The patients be recommended to increase daily physical activity levels, and weekly, there will be phone contacts with the patients to reinforce the exercise recommendations.

Intervention period will last 12 weeks. Patients will be recommended to increase daily physical activity levels, and weekly, there will be phone contacts to reinforce the recommendations.