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Are your feet looking ‘puffy?’
Now that shorts and sandals season has finally arrived, take a good look at your feet, ankles and lower legs in the bright sunshine. What do you see? Warning signs of venous disease include obvious ones like purple veins, bulging veins and swelling, but there are also more subtle symptoms, such as spider veins, skin discoloration and puffiness,...
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Varicose veins and heredity
One of the biggest risk factors in the development of varicose veins is heredity, that is, your family history. If your parents or grandparents have/had varicose veins you, too, are at a higher risk. We’ve had patients say, “I love my parents, but I don’t want my legs to look like that.” For years many people have been told...
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Varicose veins and blood clots
March is less than two weeks away. If you need varicose vein treatments, time is growing short for having the major work done by summer. Plus, it’s more comfortable completing your compression stocking requirement in winter. But enjoying healthy, attractive legs and being active in the summer without swelling, achiness and fatigue is just...
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Here’s what you can do right now to get back out there with healthy legs this summer
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is the promise to improve our health by losing weight and exercising so we’re in better physical condition to enjoy the upcoming summer months. “This is Northeast Ohio,” says Dr. Sonja Stiller, founder of Mentor’s Center for Advanced Vein Care. “We cherish our brief summers, but it’s...
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Enjoy healthy legs by summer
If you’re like so many of us, in 2021 you committed to doing something about your leg pain, swelling and fatigue, but New Year’s Day quickly turned into Easter, which suddenly became the Fourth of July, then Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Now, here we are again. So let’s make 2022 the year we really do it—the year we take care of our...
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