St. Francis Health-Mooresville offers free screenings for peripheral arterial disease

MOORESVILLE, IND – If you have poor circulation in your legs, causing pain when you walk or stand, it could be a sign of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a condition that puts you at high risk for heart disease and stroke.

Franciscan St. Francis Health is again participating in Legs for Life, a free screening program for PAD. The screening will be 7:30 to 11 a.m., Saturday, April 20, at Franciscan St. Francis Health-Mooresville, 1201 Hadley Road, Indianapolis.

To qualify for the free screening, participants must be 50 or older, not currently under the care of a cardiologist or vascular surgeon and must not have attended a screening during the past four years unless their symptoms have changed.

Symptoms of PAD include:

• Leg or hip pain when walking but stops when resting
• Numbness, tingling or weakness in legs
• Burning or aching pain in feet or toes when resting
• Sore on leg or foot that won’t heal
• Cold legs or feet
• Color change in skin of legs or feet
• Loss of hair on legs

Registration is required. The screening takes about 15 minutes and includes a personal consultation with a physician or health care professional. To make an appointment, call 317-782-4422, or toll free at 877-888-1777.