Doctors may also use laser therapy as an additional treatment after sclerotherapy, endovenous therapy, or surgery for larger varicose veins. Intense pulsed light therapy (IPL) uses high-intensity ...

Strategies such as wearing compression socks, adjusting your standing habits, and undergoing certain procedures may help ...

This process allows sclerotherapy treatment to be used on larger varicose veins that previously could only be treated surgically with ligation and stripping, in which larger varicose veins are tied ...

If you had a mother or grandmother treated for varicose veins and thought the treatment sounded worse than the disease, take heart. Times are changing. "We now use duplex ultrasound to look at the ...

However, cosmetics aside, the leg fatigue and heaviness that is associated with chronic venous insufficiency in the presence of varicose veins can be disabling. The treatment of superficial vein ...

“About half the time, that’s all the treatment necessary to relieve symptoms,” Shutze says. But ablation won’t remove varicose veins. For that, you’ll have to have ...

Recognising the symptoms early is crucial for effective treatment ... And, for some, the varicose veins are very visible around the vagina and the vulva. “Sometimes they look like little ...

But a new treatment means they can be removed by keyhole surgery with far less pain and inconvenience. Around ten to 20 per cent of the population are affected by varicose veins. They are caused ...

Vein ligation and stripping is generally done on large varicose veins. It also can be done to prevent venous skin ulcers from returning after treatment. You want to get rid of varicose veins for ...

Varicose veins are increasingly affecting younger individuals, with Ayurveda offering alternative treatments for this condition known as Siraja Granthi. Ayurvedic approaches, detailed in ...

As a result of superficial valve incompetence, high pressure is transmitted to small subcutaneous veins, which become dilated tortuous clusters of varicose veins (Figure 1B). Although valve reflux ...