Varicose vein therapy is used to remove enlarged veins ( varicose veins ) that have problems with their valves.
Varicose veins usually occur in the legs. Normally, valves in your veins keep blood flowing. But the valves in varicose veins are either damaged or missing. This causes the veins to remain filled with blood, especially when you are standing.
Varicose veins can be treated by removal (vein stripping) or occlusion of the vein. Small vericose veins can be treated with an injection with a salt solution (sclerotherapy).
Varicosed veins do not usually cause circulation problems because the blood is re-routed through deeper veins in the legs but they are a cause of great pain especially in the evening after one has been on his feet since morning.
Surgical vein stripping, sclerotherapy and endovenous ablation procedures are routinely performed at Vintage Hospital
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