Peripheral artery disease (PAD) treatments

When you have a blockage in your blood vessels, every step you take can become painful. At Aurora Health Care, we’re here to help you prevent peripheral artery disease from getting worse and reopen narrow or blocked arteries so you can get back on the right step.

Peripheral artery disease treatments

We're here to work with you on creating the best PAD treatment plan for your needs. Often, we’ll focus on the least disruptive PAD treatment options, including health and lifestyle changes, medication and minimally invasive treatments such as angioplasty and stenting that can improve your condition. This philosophy of care means less surgery, side effects and health complications.

Your doctor may recommend a combination of these common treatments for PAD including:

• Medication: Your doctor may prescribe medications to prevent blood clots in your peripheral arteries. These could include blood thinners called anticoagulants that dissolve clots in your arteries, and medication to lower your blood pressure and cholesterol to prevent heart attacks – a possible complication of PAD.
• Health & lifestyle education: Healthy lifestyle changes such as exercising more, eating healthy or quitting smoking can help decrease your PAD symptoms.
• Wound care: Since people living with PAD can quickly develop leg and feet ulcers from poor circulation, we may refer you to our wound care team for specialized help.
• PAD rehabilitation: If you need a closely supervised exercise and diet program, your doctor might suggest you participate in our peripheral artery disease rehab program.
• Minimally invasive procedures: These endovascular PAD treatments involve very small incisions, which means you recover faster than you would with traditional surgery. The most common minimally invasive treatments for PAD are angioplasty and stenting.