In today’s post I will discuss one of the oldest treatments, which is also one of the most widely used and at the same time most controversial: the injections for varicose veins, named sclerosis or sclerotherapy.
Sclerotherapy is the injection of a substance inside a vein to cause…
In this issue I’ll explain about two different surgical techniques for varicose veins, which can be both used separately or in a combined way.
The C.H.I.V.A. strategy was defined… In this issue I’ll explain about two different surgical techniques for varicose veins, which can be both used…
Opposite to conservative treatments, invasive treatments are those that require a more or less aggressive approach, but are intended to eliminate varicose veins or venous insufficiency (from Superficial Venous System only).
Here it’s necessary to point out something: although we know many factors that influence…
This week I’m explaining the most effective of the conservative treatments; this one that is loved by some and hated by some others, but it is beyond any doubt the most useful as a treatment and also as prevention against the development of varicose veins, their symptoms and their complications: the compression stockings.
To begin with, I will clarify…
Our next chapter in these series intended to inform about treatments for vein insufficiency, varicose veins and similar situations (spider veins), this week we are going to discuss about a group of measures that we’ll name postural hygiene measures.
There are quite a number of changes in lifestyle that…
A topic of great interest for general public is often treatments for varicose veins: How varicose veins can be removed, and what are exactly these treatments?
Along the following weeks I will be posting a series of articles explaining which are…
Angiology and Vascular Surgery is the medical-surgical specialty, which is responsible for diagnosis and treatment not only of varicose veins, but all the diseases that involve the peripheral circulation. This is a very wide “pipe” network, whose mission is to carry blood (and with it, all the oxygen and the nutrients) to every single cell inside our body, and to…
At this point it’s very likely that you have already heard or read more than once about the so-called “economy class syndrome”, which probably sounds like something quite serious that could potentially happen when travelling by plane, especially under the conditions of cheapest fares.
The truth is that naming it this way is quite…
Our grandma in her village, our neighbour in the fifth floor and a thorough research surfing the web they share something in common: if we ask them about their best home remedy for varicose veins they will end up probably pointing at seawater. But seawater can be used in very different ways (collective knowledge can be sometimes VERY imaginative), and the most common among all of them, as expected, is to recommend…
