Millions of people suffer from unsightly and painful varicose and spider veins. The appearance of veins on the skin can be disturbing. Patients can have pain, ranging from a dull throbbing pain to a burning sensation.

Spider veins are very small veins caused by a dilation of the small venules under the skin. This occurs when the pressure inside the vein increases enough to overcome normal resistance of the vein wall. Sometimes, they occur in a small area and are not very noticeable, or they can cover a large area of skin and be quite unattractive.

Varicose veins appear in both men and women, but more frequently in women, they are large, bulging veins often associated with tired, painful or achy legs. Sometimes varicose veins are deeper under the skin surface and not visible, however, the symptoms tend to be the same. Faulty valves in the veins, which allow some blood circulation to flow back instead of continuing on course to the heart, cause varicose veins.

Reticular veins are small, bluish coloured veins that carry blood to the skin venules and therefore, are larger. These veins have thin walls and dilate with excessive venous pressure. When this occurs, they become large enough to be unsightly, but are not considered to be varicose veins.

It is possible to eliminate these unwanted veins non-invasively, without injections or surgery by Sclerotherpy or Vein Wave treatment.

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