Endovenous Laser Treatment for Leg swelling
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by: Judah Judah83
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 Time: 2:00 AM
What causes Leg Swelling?
Medically speaking, there is cycle of blood circulation all entire part of the body through arteries. The blood circulation is propelled by heartbeat process under high pressure. Although there is no specific reasons defined for leg swelling, however, some factors such as prolonged standing, long travelling, menstrual problems (in women), aging process, overweight, injury to ankle or foot and other factors like malnutrition, leg surgery, clotting of blood, infection in leg, lymphatic obstruction and insect bite have link to leg swelling disorder.
Leg swelling may also be sign of improper functionality of vital body organs such as kidney, heart and liver.
Symptoms/complications
During the onset of leg swelling, the patients experience some physical disorders like burning and itching discomfort followed by painful ordeal. In addition, through the developmental phase, the disease becomes common occurrence in the morning to all entire day combined with painful discomfort. If the swollen part is pressed, you will feel indentation in the area.
Treatment - Endovenous Laser Treatment
Endovenous Laser Treatment of leg swelling is a certified medical treatment and is one of the best medical solutions for the disease in the world. The medical procedure involved in this endovenous laser treatment is that the doctors or medical specialists perform a tiny incision in the affected skin area of legs. This is a quick treatment procedure and has become minimally invasive alternative as compared to traditional vein stripping. The treatment also involves absolute pain free recovery option to the patient undergone the treatment.
A patient who is to undergo endovenous laser therapy has to undergo a physical examination using an ultrasound machine. The machine is used to detect the conditional phase of the vein to be treated. The duration of the treatment is less than an hour. The specialist uses local anesthetic for the treatment of affected area. Thereafter, a thin laser fiber is inserted into the vein with the help of a sheath. When the fiber is positioned in a correct order, there follows application of laser therapy using laser energy while the physician extracts fiber according to the length of the affected vein. The heat generated process by laser energy makes affected vein shrunk, collapsed and sealed out. Once the vein is sealed, it is replaced by healthy veins thereby enabling blood flow kick in towards the heart. Finally, over few days when the influence of surgery diminished, the patient feels absolute recovery of leg swelling disorder.
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Judah Judah is the author of this article on Leg swelling. Find more information about Peripheral arterial disease here.
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