How are your legs feeling now?

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If you’d like healthier legs as early as this spring and summer, one of the best New Year’s resolutions you can make is to start the process now.

By Dr. Sonja Stiller, Center for Advanced Vein Care

So how do your legs feel so far this holiday season? Tired, achy, swollen? Additional activities we are unaccustomed to can make varicose vein symptoms worse, even when the veins are not visible. These include standing all day to prepare the Thanksgiving meal to holiday shopping.

If you’d like healthier legs as early as this spring and summer, one of the best New Year’s resolutions you can make is to start the process now. Most insurance companies have a six-week compression stocking requirement, so by starting now you can meet that requirement during the cool winter months when compression is more comfortable.

In addition, varicose vein treatments take time, so by getting started in January, we can have your legs looking and feeling better in time to enjoy a healthy, active summer. Patients often come to us in the spring expecting to be healed by summer and are disappointed to learn how much time treatments take. That’s why resolving to start now is perfect timing.

And we’re proud to announce the expansion of our practice. We have added staff and doubled the size of our office (within the same facility), including adding our own private waiting room, more exam rooms, and a second treatment room. This means less waiting. In fact, we can now almost always see new patients the same day they call us or the very next day.

So, call our office now, especially if you have a family history of varicose veins or blood clots, or any of the following symptoms:

  • leg pain
  • swelling
  • fatigue
  • itching
  • burning
  • inflammation
  • skin discoloration
  • restless legs syndrome

Dr. Sonja Stiller is a diplomat of both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine. She is the founder of the Center for Advanced Vein Care, a Tier 1 provider with Lake Health Hospital System. The center’s newly expanded offices are at 7200 Mentor Avenue, in Mentor. For an appointment, call 440-710-1140. More info can be found at YourHealthyVeins.com.

Categories: Lake County Health & Wellness