Each treatment, when appropriately chosen, has excellent results.
However, it is important to note that no treatment can do anything about the underlying tendency to develop varicosities.
After a mapping scan we help you to decide on the treatment that best suits you and your situation to get the most effective results. You decide and tell us.
With over 20 years of experience we have the knowledge to help you to decide.
Graduated compression stockings have been proven to be effective for relieving the heavy, aching, feeling due to varicose veins, and also to help prevent DVT – Deep Vein Thrombosis (Travellers clots) with flying or driving. Over-the-counter stockings that are not graduated compression may in fact increase the risk of DVT. Sequential compression means the stocking or sock is tighter at the ankle, and gradually gets less tight higher up the leg.
The discomfort of varicose veins is due to the weight of the blood pooling in your legs, which distends and stretches the vein. This happens with prolonged sitting as in flying, or long trips in the car, and can cause uncomfortable swelling of the feet and ankles.
As a person walks, the contraction and relaxation of the calf muscles around the veins aid in moving blood toward the heart. The external graduated compression of SIGVARIS socks and stockings act as a layer of muscle by gently squeezing the stretched vein walls together, allowing the valves to close. The excess blood is squeezed out of the vein, reducing the distension of the vein, thereby restoring blood flow to a normal state and aiding overall circulation.
To be most effective, the socks or stockings should be put on at the start of your day and removed before you go to bed. We can advise you whether you should wear full length or knee high stockings.
Put stockings on before you start your travel, and remove them at the end of the trip. For travel, you usually only need knee high stockings.
Varicose veins don’t like stretching of the vein wall, and hence the symptoms.
If the pressure in the veins is high, you need higher compression, and so the amount of compression has a simple code that lets you know what you are buying.
Grade I 15 – 20 mm Hg
Grade II 20 – 30 mm Hg
Grade III 30 – 40 mm Hg
Sequential Compression means that the stockings or socks are firmer around the ankle than higher up the calf. This gradient of compression helps milk the blood on the veins up and out of the leg.
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