One of the most common symptoms we encounter in our practice is from patients who complain of chronically swollen legs and ankles. At first they didn’t pay much attention to them, believing that the swelling must have been due to overexertion or a sprain or something similar, but then the swelling didn’t go away. It … Read more

If your legs are covered with varicose veins, you don’t have to be told that they look a little scary. Best Vein Doctors in Texas: Varicose Vein Are Scary One of our patients recently told us that the main reason she decided to seek vein disease treatment in Texas because she was tired of looking in the mirror … Read more

“Quality of life” is a phrase that means many things to many people. Flower Mound Vein Specialist: Improve Your Life in 1 Hour For some, it can mean being able to comfortably afford food, clothing, and shelter. To others, having a good quality of life may require more intangible things, like being satisfied with one’s … Read more

If you have varicose veins, you already know how unattractive they are. You are reminded of this every time you look into a mirror, sigh, and reach for long pants or dark stockings to cover them up. Flower Mound Vascular Doctor: Restoring Healthy Legs You also know how debilitating they are for your sense of self-worth … Read more

It’s a new year, and you’ve decided that this year you’re finally going to do something to get rid of your varicose veins and stop allowing them to rob you of the joy of life. Flower Mound Vein Specialist: Get Rid of Varicose Veins You’re tired of looking in the mirror, sighing, and then reaching for yet … Read more

Stroke is serious. It is the third-largest cause of death in the U.S., and the first-largest cause of long-term disability. Someone in America has a stroke every 40 seconds, and worldwide the statistics are even more dire – over 15 million have strokes each year, of whom 1/3 die and another 1/3 become permanently disabled. … Read more

If someone were to ask you, “What is the worst side effect of your varicose veins?” chances are you’d focus on how unattractive they make your legs look. You might mention the sense of dread with which you gaze at your own image in the mirror – hoping every day that the bulging, discolored veins … Read more

Any discussion of vein disease treatment has to cover a lot of ground, because there is such a range of treatment options. For example, there are conservative treatments that focus on bringing the symptoms of varicose veins or other vein diseases more under control with diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, and the use of compression stockings … Read more

As a Flower Mound vein specialist, I often encounter patients whose varicose veins have gotten so bad that they can barely walk. They have chronically swollen legs and ankles, have stopped exercising and doing things they enjoy like playing sports or dancing, and instead sit around much of the time saying “My legs hurt.” When … Read more

Let’s face it…no one wants to end up in the hospital. So when your doctor tells you that you have high blood pressure and high cholesterol or other signs of arterial disease and that if you don’t do something about it you’ll end up in the hospital, you listen, right? But strangely enough, when people are … Read more