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STORYLINE:              Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              Step by step, seniors in the United States are helping scientists prove a simple concept - that treadmills can be good medicine.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a treadmill at a Minnesota hospital under the eye of a rehab therapist. \u003cbr/\u003e              She walks until it hurts - pushing her limits, walking faster and adding steeper inclines. \u003cbr/\u003e              The retired school aide has leg pain caused by clogged blood vessels. Until recently, monitored walking wasn't an option for people with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, because most insurance policies don't cover it. \u003cbr/\u003e              Medicare has decided to pay for supervised exercise therapy for older Americans hobbled by PAD, a serious condition linked to smoking and diabetes that puts people in danger of heart attacks, strokes and amputations.\u003cbr/\u003e              It costs Medicare nearly $4 billion a year on surgeries and procedures to treat it. \u003cbr/\u003e              Research shows treadmill workouts overseen by a medical professional improve the distances patients can walk and their quality of life. \u003cbr/\u003e              This low-tech approach may reduce hospitalizations and help people live longer too. But virtually none of them now gets exercise therapy outside of studies. \u003cbr/\u003e              Drugs don't work well, so doctors have used surgery or catheter procedures with balloons or stents to bypass or unblock blood vessels in the legs. \u003cbr/\u003e              The expensive procedures - costing thousands of dollars - do work, but experiments show treadmill walking works just as well for a fraction of the cost. \u003cbr/\u003e              About 2,600 hospital-based rehab centres are gearing up for an influx of patients after Medicare's decision. \u003cbr/\u003e              Other insurers usually follow Medicare's lead so coverage for younger patients may be ahead. \u003cbr/\u003e              Peripheral artery disease affects about 8 million Americans; about 2 million of them have disabling leg pain. \u003cbr/\u003e              A simple test of ankle and arm blood pressure in any doctor's office can detect the condition. \u003cbr/\u003e              Beginning in January, Medicare will pay for 12 weeks of supervised exercise at US$53 apiece with a doctor's referral. Sessions will be about three times a week for 30 minutes to an hour. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's one of the few therapies that is effective,\" says Dr. Mary McDermott of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. \u003cbr/\u003e              Without someone checking on them and encouraging them, many patients won't keep at it, she adds. \u003cbr/\u003e              Leg pain forced Chicago resident Zella Coleman to give up bowling and trips with her choir. \u003cbr/\u003e              After four months of supervised treadmill walking in a Northwestern program at a gym, her pain has eased enough that she's started walking with friends in her neighbourhood. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"You know there is life at the end of this. I can get back to the things that I used to do. And I know it's going to better,\" says the 63-year-old. \u003cbr/\u003e              The American Heart Association and other heart specialists came together to ask Medicare to cover supervised exercise therapy for people with artery disease. \u003cbr/\u003e              The government's leading insurance program occasionally reviews the value of treatments and decides what to cover.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois, USA - 18 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Feet walking on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Tight shot face of Ivan Dixon, PAD patient, Chicago\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivan Dixon, Chicago:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I can't stand up to walk around the stores like I used to. So many things I can't do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - 15 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Feet walking on sidewalk\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rita Driscoll, PAD patient, Minneapolis, Minnesota:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It hurt from my calf to my hip.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois, USA - 18 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Two people walking on treadmills\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Side view two people walking on treadmills\u003cbr/\u003e              Minneapolis, Minnesota - 15 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Tight of Rita Driscoll's face while walking on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Tight Rita Driscoll feet\u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois, USA - 18 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Medium Ivan Dixon and Zella Coleman walking on treadmills\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zella Coleman, PAD patient, Chicago:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The pain was just excruciating.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Zella Coleman having her blood pressure checked.\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Medium of exercise physiologist taking notes\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mary McDermott, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Peripheral artery disease is a blockage of the arteries that supply the legs. And patients who have peripheral artery disease tend to have difficulty walking. They often get pain in their calf muscles or they can feel tightness or a burning or even weakness.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Minneapolis, Minnesota - 15 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Tight of \"effort scale\" sign on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various Rita Driscoll on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              17. UPSOUND: Rita Driscoll coming off treadmill: \"So I do it 8 minutes. And then I rest a couple.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois, USA - 18 August 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Zella Coleman having pulse checked\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mary McDermott, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Supervised treadmill exercise is exercise on a treadmill that takes place in a hospital-based setting or in just a supervised setting where an exercise physiologist or another trained professional is with the patient while they're doing their treadmill exercise.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Zella Coleman looking at clipboard\u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mary McDermott, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's one of the few therapies that is effective and suddenly it will increase access for patients to this effective therapy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Tight Zella Coleman face while on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Tight Zella Coleman hand while on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE (English) Zella Coleman, patient, Chicago: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"You know there is life at the end of this. I can get back to the things that I used to do. And I know it's going to be better. But you have to push yourself. You have to want to get better in order to do better.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Tight Zella Coleman feet on treadmill\u003cbr/\u003e              26. 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