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What is Walking?

Walking is a moderate form of physical activity that can have important health benefits. Read more...Click to read more below

Reasons done & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons done # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 6 0
Mobility 4 0
Other 2 1
Weight control 1 0
Lose weight 1 0
Slow my ALS progress 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
1 100%

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Doing Walking (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Not indicated
1 100% Not indicated: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped doing Walking

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Doing Walking

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
1
3
5
5

Stopped Doing Walking

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
1 100%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
1 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 21, 2009.