For those who are overweight or have very swollen legs, your surgeon may also recommend a compression pump, a plastic sleeve ...

Read my story here - including how varicose veins impacted my life, how I found the procedure, and the results that changed ...

The blood in the veins of the legs works against gravity in order to return upwards to the heart. The blood is moved up towards the heart by one-way valves in the veins. When the leg muscles contract ...

I soon learned these were spider veins and varicose veins. I shrugged it off at the time, but the veins got worse, more appeared and they sort of hurt too. I thought of my father’s legs. No offense, ...

Both varicose and spider veins result when valves designed to keep blood from running backward away from the heart and back down into the leg fail or ... Now here's the bad news.

Varicose veins are caused by damage to the valves in the legs that help the blood get back up to our hearts. But it turns out that this is a myth: there’s no evidence that crossing your legs has ...