Why Are Teachers More Susceptible to Varicose Veins?

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- Well, Doctor, thank you so much for waking up with us,
always a pleasure to have you on my show.
- Good morning, Maggie, thanks for having me.
- So, we're talking about back to school
and teachers out there, I feel so bad,
you were saying that they have problems with poor circulation and varicose veins,
why are they more susceptible?
- Yeah, the teachers and a lot of other professions, but especially teachers,
they're on their feet all the time,
they're educating our future leaders of the world
and their job requires that they're sitting or standing for prolonged periods of time.
And because of gravity pushing the blood backwards down
instead of allowing it all to come up is what leads to the circulation problems.
- And a lot of times, I mean, I know I've heard of them, varicose veins,
those special pantyhose, you like dread it.
But what is it exactly?
- Yeah, so, varicose veins, first of all,
are just big, engorged, large veins, typically in our legs
'cause gravity is affecting farthest from the heart which are the legs.
So these veins become visible on the skin.
And the pressures inside these veins is very high.
And that pressure is what causes the further stretching and symptoms.
So typically we'll get symptoms of cramps, charley horses, restless legs at night,
swelling, just discomfort, achy legs, and it is all preventable.
And you said about the compression stockings, those are a good, simple,
conservative way to help them because what they're doing
is they're compressing the veins, hopefully back to normal size.
But, for a lot of people they're just Band-Aids, they don't cure the problem.
We have ways where we can actually make it go away for good.
- Okay, I like that because those, they're not very attractive, Doctor, those stockings,
I'm not gonna lie.
So, what do we do if we want to come see you, like how can you help treat this?
- Yeah, so the treatments are actually very simple.
As we tell our patients, you drive yourself in,
we do the treatment and you drive yourself back home,
there's no recovery, there's no downtime.
Basically, what we're doing, Maggie,
is we're shutting down that vein with either heat,
or glue, or foam, it's a very minor local anesthetic injection
and you're closing that vein so now the blood returns
through the many other good veins.
And the symptoms that were there from that one or two veins
are no longer present.
So, non-invasive, pretty much painless, outpatient, takes 10 minutes
and your quality of life, your sleep, your leg health is back to normal.
- Well, this gets an A+ in my book.
So, where can people go for more and to visit you?
- Well, our website is www.modernheartandvascular.com
or they can call us at Modern Heart and Vascular at 832-644-8930.
We would love to restore their leg health.
- Thank you so much for your time, Doctor, I appreciate you.
- Thank you, Maggie