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Chronic Venous Insufficiency Treatment at America's Vein Doctors

Treat Your Chronic Venous Insufficiency at America's Vein Doctors

The painful leg cramps you experience after a long day's work might not only be due to stress or muscle strain. If it comes with itchiness, swelling, leg ulcer, and more noticeable veins, consult our healthcare professionals at America's Vein Doctors for chronic venous disease or venous reflux. Experience quality of life without pain, swelling, and unflattering varicose veins that hamper your self-esteem.

American Vein Specialists offers thorough screening of your venous disease to provide comprehensive treatment. Have your leg veins checked by our vascular surgeon and experts to receive comprehensive treatment. Schedule an appointment with us today by leaving a call at our hotline, visiting our clinic, or filling out a form on our website.

What is Chronic Venous Insufficiency?

Chronic venous insufficiency is a vein disease where the one-way vein valves preventing blood from flowing backward become faulty, resulting in stasis or when blood collects in your veins. Your veins deliver deoxygenated blood from your body to your heart to receive oxygen.

Once you have chronic venous disease, the blood flows back and pools in your leg veins because the damaged vein valves weaken and allow backflow instead of supporting the blood when returning to the heart.

While this vascular disease isn't entirely a serious health risk, its symptoms greatly affect your quality of life. It may also be a sign of a cardiovascular condition needing more immediate medical attention.

Why You Develop Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Chronic venous insufficiency is caused mainly by damaged vein valves that are unable to prevent blood flow from returning to the leg veins. The valves of a patient's blood vessels become faulty due to many reasons – it might be due to their lifestyle or a medical history of another vein disease.

Lifestyle can greatly contribute to your chronic venous insufficiency. These may produce symptoms that can affect your quality of life, like having a venous ulcer, varicose veins, and more.

Here are some of the causes why you've developed this vein disease:

obesity
pregnancy
previous injuries, blood clots, or surgery
family history
sitting or standing for long periods
smoking
lack of exercise
swelling of superficial vein or phlebitis
blood clot at the deep vein or deep vein thrombosis
pelvic tumors

Consulting a healthcare provider at America's Vein Doctors allows you to know more about why you might be experiencing this vascular disease. Book an appointment with us to learn more about the causes of your vein problems.

Symptoms of Chronic Venous Insufficiency

The chronic venous insufficiency symptoms might sometimes be subtle as some patients may shrug them off until they've become severe – some of them assume painful leg cramps are just caused by a tough day or sores in the legs might only be due to usual skin irritation.

The chronic venous insufficiency symptoms you need to watch out for are:

itchiness
heaviness or swelling at the lower leg
varicose veins
leathery skin
painful leg cramps
brown-colored skin, especially near your ankles
restless legs syndrome or the urge to move your legs
flaking skin

As mentioned, chronic venous insufficiency isn't entirely life-threatening. But when left untreated, your small blood vessels or capillaries can burst and develop into a venous leg ulcer. These open sores are difficult to heal, and leaving your venous reflux untreated can affect your blood flow and quality of life due to the symptoms.

Seek your chronic venous insufficiency treatment at America's Vein Doctors. We offer a wealth of treatment options tailor-fitted according to what you're comfortable with. Book an appointment with us today.

Risk Factors of Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Some patients are more likely to develop chronic venous insufficiency. Know more about the risk factors of chronic venous insufficiency to prevent or control it immediately while in its early stages.

Here are some of the risk factors for this vascular condition:

Varicose veins - appearance of varicose veins may be a sign of chronic venous insufficiency.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - your venous reflux might also be a post-thrombotic syndrome, where another chronic venous disease called deep vein thrombosis may have caused your condition. Deep vein thrombosis involves developing a blood clot in a larger vein at the lower leg.
Obesity - extra fat from being overweight or obese adds pressure to your blood vessels and constricts each vessel's vein wall. This might damage your venous valves.
Lack of exercise - muscle contractions when exercising improve your blood flow and aids the veins in delivering blood to the heart.
Pregnancy - the physical changes a patient goes through during pregnancy, like hormonal changes, increased blood clots, and venous distension, contributes to risks of developing chronic venous insufficiency.
Smoking - it can weaken your vein walls.
Aging - aging can cause your vein wall to weaken, especially in patients above 50.
Gender - hormonal changes can also weaken your vein wall and vein valve. That's why women are more at risk of having chronic venous insufficiency.
Extended periods of standing or sitting - if your lifestyle involves sitting or standing for long periods, you'd become prone to developing chronic venous insufficiency. The blood pools at the lower leg vein because you're either standing up or sitting down for far too long. The blood in stasis maintains high blood pressure, weakening the vein wall and valve.

If you suspect having this vascular disease or think you might be at risk of developing one, consult our healthcare professionals at America's Vein Doctors to come up with a prevention and treatment plan.

How We Treat Your Chronic Venous Insufficiency

America's Vein Doctors is made up of healthcare professionals highly skilled in vascular surgery and general health. We offer different treatment options not only for chronic venous insufficiency but also for other cardiovascular diseases, like carotid artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, and more.

Diagnosis

America's Vein Doctors conducts a thorough screening to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. Patients can expect our vein specialists to get down to the bottom of their symptoms.

Level 1 - during your visit to our clinic, we will interview you and scan your medical history. We will also conduct a clinical examination where we might use a hand-held Doppler to screen your blood flow.
Level 2 - we might conduct non-invasive laboratory testing for your veins where we use a duplex color scanning and plethysmographic method
Level 3 - we might also execute invasive examinations involving imaging tests, like ascending and descending phlebography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), venous pressure measurements, computed tomography (CT) scan, and venous helical scanning.

America's Vein Doctors ensures to provide you with extensive screening to have an accurate diagnosis. This also allows us to create a customized chronic venous insufficiency treatment plan for you.

Types of Chronic Venous Insufficiency

There are different categories of chronic venous insufficiency by which you'll be diagnosed. These depend on the severity of your condition.

The categories of chronic venous insufficiency are:

Stage 1 - involves swelling of the lower leg with changes in skin color
Stage 2 - involves swelling of the lower leg with changes in skin color and dermatitis or eczema
Stage 3 - involves swelling of the lower leg with changes in skin color, dermatitis or eczema, and venous stasis ulcer.

If you're experiencing early signs of chronic venous insufficiency, book an appointment at our clinic across Michigan and South Carolina immediately. This condition might progress into chronic venous hypertension, more blood clots, and venous abnormalities.

Treatment

America's Vein Doctors create a customized treatment for your chronic venous insufficiency -- from prescribing medications and guiding you through new routines to conducting therapies for providing immediate relief to your symptoms.

Medication - patients may be prescribed medications, like the following:
- antibiotics - for venous ulcers and skin inflammation
- topical steroids - for venous ulcer
- aspirin - for leg ulcer
- low-dose diuretic - for massive edema

Mechanical interventions - we also prescribe mechanical interventions to treat your chronic venous insufficiency. These include the use of:
- Compression garments
- Short-stretch bandages
- Intermittent pneumatic compression pumps

Sclerotherapy - vein specialists at America's Vein Doctors may also prescribe sclerotherapy. This is an injectable treatment used for treating varicose veins. Guided by an ultrasound, it involves injections of chemical solution or sclerosant into the affected vein to stimulate a clot and cause it to close, rerouting the blood to healthier veins. The scarred vein becomes absorbed by local tissues and fades.
Endovenous radiofrequency ablation - this nonsurgical procedure involves using radiofrequency heat introduced by a catheter to trigger collagen contraction at the vein wall. The heat causes the diseased vein to close. The blood will reroute into healthier veins.

Endovenous laser ablation - this minimally invasive treatment uses laser energy with a catheter administered into your diseased vein to close it. The blood will reroute into healthier veins, and the scarred vein from the laser will be absorbed into local tissues.

Surgery - America’s Vein Doctors recommend surgical options if your condition doesn’t improve. These surgical procedures include:
- Varicose vein stripping or ligation
- Subfascial endoscopic perforator surgery
- Valvuloplasty or valve reconstruction

Schedule a consultation with our vein specialists at America’s Vein Doctors to know more about our treatment options for chronic venous insufficiency.

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How You Can Control Your Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Our vein specialists at America’s Vein Doctors provide comprehensive treatment for patients experiencing chronic venous insufficiency and other vascular problems. You can expect to receive further guidance and instructions for managing your condition. Here are some of them:

Take sitting or standing breaks - as mentioned, sitting or standing for long periods provide great risks for developing chronic venous insufficiency. If this is the nature of your career, be sure to take sitting breaks between standing for a long time or standing breaks if you’ve been sitting.
Maintain a healthy weight - excess fat applies pressure on vein walls, causing them to weaken. Ensure maintaining a healthy weight to manage your chronic venous insufficiency and avoid other cardiovascular problems.
Elevate your legs - avoid blood from pooling at your legs and aid its circulation by elevating your heart above the level of your heart.
Keep a healthy lifestyle - avoid smoking and other unhealthy habits affecting your cardiovascular health.
Wear compression garments - should you need to stand or sit for long periods, consider wearing compression garments to apply pressure on your lower leg veins, avoiding blood from pooling.
Keep your skin clean and moisturized - heal leg ulcers by keeping your skin clean and moisturized – this also prevents future skin problems from developing.

Schedule an appointment at America’s Vein Doctor immediately if you’ve noticed signs of chronic venous insufficiency or other vein problems.

How You Can Prevent Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Keeping healthy vascular health is key to preventing chronic venous insufficiency and other vein diseases. Here are some of the ways for preventing chronic venous insufficiency:

lead an active lifestyle
avoid wearing high heels
maintain a stable weight
eat a balanced diet
avoid standing or sitting for long periods

Consult with our vein specialists to check the condition of your veins and know more about how you can prevent vascular diseases.

Restore Your Quality of Life with America’s Vein Doctors

Chronic venous insufficiency is met with discomfort due to pain and itchiness and the appearance of varicose veins that affects the self-esteem of many patients. America’s Vein Doctors provides patients with integrated treatment for their vein disease, tailor-fit according to the patient’s condition and preferences.

Board-certified physicians
World-class service
Highly-equipped facility
Kind and welcoming staff

America’s Vein Doctors provides treatment not only for chronic venous insufficiency but also for other vein problems many patients may have, like spider veins, varicose veins, and more. Schedule an appointment with our vein specialist today for a free vein screening.

Book a Consultation with Our Vein Specialists at America’s Vein Doctors for Your Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Many patients experience chronic venous insufficiency and other vascular problems. Chronic venous insufficiency may not be a life-threatening condition, but its symptoms highly affect your quality of life. Receive treatment for your venous leg ulcer, swelling, varicose veins, and more from board-certified vein specialists at a reliable facility equipped with needed technology for your wellness.

Your step towards pain-free days starts with booking an appointment with us. Leave a call or visit our clinics today across Michigan and South Carolina for a free leg or vein screening. You may also fill out a quote on our website.