Can Your Exercising Lead to Varicose Veins? Has this ever happened to you, after a good workout session, you spot bulging blue veins on the surface of your legs? Yup, you’ve guessed it right. It’s probably varicose veins, the swollen and enlarged veins caused by poor blood flow in your […]
Have you noticed your leg veins starting to swell and bulge? Do they ache and feel heavy sometimes? These are just among the tell-tale signs of varicose veins.
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 […]
Keeping Your Legs Healthy & Attractive Chronic venous insufficiency is a condition that causes decreased blood flow from the leg veins to the heart. The decreased blood flow causes the blood to pool in the leg veins, which can lead to varicose veins. Special valves in the blood vessels of […]
Vertebroplasty: One Patient’s Story of How It Changed His Life Are you suffering from agonizing pain that is interfering with your quality of life? Are you in search of a way to relieve your pain due to osteoporosis? Read one man’s story of how he went from bed-ridden to enjoying […]
Vascular Clinic with Catheterization Laboratory: Minimally Invasive Procedures For Your Vascular Health Are you experiencing leg pain, vein disease, leg ulcers, swelling, and skin discoloration of legs due to venous insufficiency, or blood clotting? Patients with signs of peripheral artery disease and other vascular diseases are advised for a scheduled […]
Defining Interventional Radiology: Meet Your Local IR Doctors “I was having leg pain whenever I walked. My primary care physician referred me to a local interventional radiologist, who she said could help me with this problem.” – Caroline R. Interventional radiologists tend to fly below the healthcare radar, but they […]
Aortic Stent Graft: A Minimally Invasive Procedure for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm “After Dr. Dicker showed me the before and after pictures, I was shocked. I probably wouldn’t have made it through the year.” –Mark Fillmore, Prescott Valley Do you feel any deep, constant abdominal or back pain? Is the pain […]
Interventional Radiologists: Pioneers of Minimally-Invasive Treatments for Peripheral Vascular Disease Homer Stevens could not walk far because his legs would tire out quickly and his toe was black, swollen and very painful. His quality of life suffered. His podiatrist suggested that he might have a circulation problem and recommended he […]
Chemoembolization: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Treating Cancer As vascular specialists, interventional radiologists target specific illnesses and diseases through image guidance and small devices, which they use through blood vessels to reach a part of the body that requires treatment. One such treatment is chemoembolization, a minimally invasive procedure performed […]