Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Oxygen therapy may save limbs

Doctors speak out

Amplify’d from www.altmeds.com

Physicians speak out on vascular disease risk

You've heard of individuals risking "life and limb" in courageous feats of daring and adventure. Tens of thousands of Americans risk life and limb every day without stepping a foot out of their homes.

More than 100,000 lower-leg and foot amputations are done every year in the United States because of peripheral artery disease. PAD is a narrowing or loss of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the feet, legs and hands, and can cause non-healing foot and leg ulcers, pain with walking, and blood clots that can lodge in small vessels and result in limb-threatening loss of blood and oxygen.
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