Pregnancy & Varicose Veins: Five Ways to Reduce Your Risk Pregnancy brings about a lot of changes in a woman’s body, but one often unexpected change is the development of varicose veins. And it makes sense. After all, during pregnancy your body not only produces more blood, but your hormones […]
Varicose Veins: Why Standing & Sitting are So Bad for You (and What to Do About It) When it comes to developing varicose veins, the risk factors run the gamut from family history and aging to pregnancy, obesity, and leg trauma. But what you might not realize is that standing […]
Can Your Workouts Lead to Varicose Veins? Although exercises, like running, biking, hiking, and soccer rely more heavily on the legs than other workouts, they do not cause varicose veins. If they did, every athlete would, at some point, develop them. But they don’t. However, that’s not to say that […]
Varicose Veins: Pain, Swelling & Managing Your Symptoms As we age, our veins can lose elasticity and stretch, which can cause the valves within our veins to become weak and allow blood, which should be moving toward our heart, to pool in our veins. When this happens, our veins become […]
What to Expect After Varicose Vein Treatment At Vascular & Interventional Specialists of Prescott, we understand that you want to know what to expect after varicose vein treatment. And while we can’t tell you exactly what your experience will be, our general guide to recovery can help you mentally prepare […]
Know the Difference: Peripheral Vascular Disease vs. Peripheral Arterial Disease Vascular diseases can range from coronary artery disease to congestive heart failure and high blood pressure, but two of the diseases – peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) – are so similarly named and so closely […]