Walking Exercise Intervention

Walking is presented as simple, low-cost, low-risk, and broadly accessible. The original review was designed to quantify how effective home-based programmes are relative to comparators. The control group receives standard discharge education without the walking manual or telephone walking guidance. The prescription is adjusted based on functional status, symptoms, comorbidities, and training response. The walking prescription uses age-stratified targets as a pragmatic starting point across centres. The corrected evidence base for home-based walking programmes excludes one study that failed inclusion criteria. The intervention group receives pre-discharge walking education and an individualised walking plan. Weekly telephone calls for four weeks review progress and guide exercise progression. The underlying review evaluated home-based walking exercise programmes for patients with PAD and intermittent claudication. Interest in home-based walking programmes is driven by access barriers to supervised rehabilitation.