Top 7 Expert-Approved Strategies for Healthier Legs and Better Vein Health

Improving leg health is essential for overall well-being and can significantly reduce your risk of painful and unsightly vein-related issues. Dr. Joseph Magnant, Board-Certified Vascular Surgeon and founder of Vein Specialists, shares the top 7 valuable tips to enhance leg health and prevent vein complications. Here are seven practical strategies to consider to achieve healthier…

Sclerotherapy Aftercare: The 10 Best Ways to Ensure a Smooth Recovery

A highly effective and minimally invasive procedure, sclerotherapy treats unsightly spider veins and varicose veins, leaving your legs looking and feeling better. While the procedure itself is relatively quick and simple, proper sclerotherapy aftercare is crucial to ensure a successful outcome and minimize discomfort. Here are the 10 most essential post-sclerotherapy aftercare steps to help…

Facial Vein Treatment Options

Do You Have Small Red Vein Clusters on Your Face? If you have broken capillaries, spider veins, or spider vein clusters called telangiectasia, you have vein treatment options at our state-of-the-art vein clinic Fort Myers or vein clinic Bonita Springs. These tiny veins lie just beneath the surface of your skin, making them very delicate…

Medical adhesive vein closure, VenaSeal™ IS NOW covered by insurance in 2018!

What is VenaSeal™?  VenaSeal™ is the latest minimally invasive procedure proven to safely and effectively treat venous reflux disease.  At Vein Specialists, we are dedicated to improving our patients’ health.  VenaSeal™ was approved by the FDA late in 2015 and is the only procedure that uses medical adhesive to close a diseased leg vein from…

Do you have “Orthovenous” Disease?

When Orthopedic and Venous Disease Collide. “Orthovenous” disease you ask?  What is that?  Is that even a disease or a word?  Well…not exactly, but it is a neologism I have created to describe a much more common entity I have encountered in my vein focused practice.  Patients with orthopedic disease are of the age group…

External Bleeding from small calf veins can be sign of underlying problem

Have seen back to back patients this morning with severe venous insufficiency involving the left great saphenous vein.  Both patients had history of multiple episodes of significant external hemorrhage.  Neither had external signs of varicose veins but both had what appeared to be large spider veins (called telangiectasias) in the pretibial region (front of the…

Check your veins before (or after) hip or knee replacement! Reduce your risks of complications.

This patient had left leg swelling for the past six months since his left total knee replacement. He had two ultrasounds which negative for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), yet his swelling and pain persisted. On further review of his history, he stated that he had had swelling in his left leg for some years prior…