Hiding Varicose or Spider Veins This Summer? You May be a Candidate for This Easy, Outpatient Treatment

With the summer weather comes the shorts, skirts, capris, and other leg-baring clothing that for most of us, feels freeing and breezy and adds to summer fun. If you have varicose or spider veins, however, you may feel a little self-conscious about showing them off. Worse, you may be suffering other effects like pain, burning, swelling, tiredness, heaviness, tender areas, or skin pigmentation.

Varicose and spider veins are somewhat embarrassing, at best, and can be dangerous, at worst. Advanced stages of the condition can lead to blood clots, trophic ulcers, bleeding, and phlebitis. Fortunately, there is a solution. It’s called Endovenous Laser Therapy (EVLT), and in a multi-center study of over 1,000 patients, it showed a 99% success rate in effectively closing the vein and eliminating its side effects.¹

What is EVLT?

            “Closing” the vein or, in essence, shutting it down, has long been the solution to varicose veins. This procedure, however, used to require extensive surgery that left scars and various other side effects. Today, EVLT is considered the most effective way to eliminate venous insufficiency.

In our centers, EVLT is performed exclusively by highly qualified physicians specializing in vascular medicine and dedicated to vein care and management. We finish in 30 minutes, use local anesthesia (so you don’t experience any pain). When you leave the office, you won’t have to change your routine except for limiting strenuous exercise for about two weeks.

Here’s how it works. Once you’ve made the appointment with us, we will perform an extensive ultrasound study of the lower extremities and make sure you’re a good candidate for EVLT. We’ll answer any questions you may have. When you’re ready to undergo the procedure your doctor will perform a painless ultrasound on your veins to mark them. Next, the nurse will clean the skin of your legs with an antimicrobial solution. The doctor will inject a local numbing medicine, and finally will perform the laser treatment. A thin laser fiber is inserted through a tiny entry point, laser energy is delivered, and the vein is permanently sealed, restoring normal circulation. Depending on the number of diseased veins, more than one procedure may be required.

When the sealing is complete, we’ll apply a compressing wrap to your legs and you’ll be able to go home. That simple! Pain, swelling, and other side effects will be gone, you won’t suffer any scarring, and your legs will look better and healthier within weeks.

USA Vein Clinics

EVLT requires a physician who’s experienced in the field of vascular surgery. Varicose veins can be complex and each patient is unique, so the physician needs to be familiar with the entire spectrum of the disease and able to perform percutaneous (i.e., through the skin) as well as precise conventional surgeries.

The medical staff at the USA Vein Clinics ensures the most professional care to all patients. We do all therapy in our office on an outpatient basis with the patient awake and able to resume normal activity immediately. All our procedures are formed by doctors, not nurses or technicians, and our office will check with your insurance company to ensure coverage before we start any treatment.

If you’re tired of your varicose or spider veins, call our clinics today, before the summer’s gone! Our clinics are conveniently located in New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles. 

¹ Agus GB, Mancini S, Magi G; IEWG. The first 1000 cases of Italian Endovenous-laser Working Group (IEWG). Rationale, and long-term outcomes for the 1999-2003 period. Int Angiol. 2006 Jun;25(2):209-15.