An Overview of Vein Treatments at the Spider Vein Clinic in TX
1. Pre-Appointment
Your spider vein and varicose vein treatment start before your scheduled appointment. The spider vein clinic in TX provides free insurance verification for all patients. As such, you can send your insurance details to the vein clinic after scheduling a consultation. The insurance concierge will review the terms and conditions of your insurance provider, handle the paperwork, and prepare all the necessary details ahead of your consultation. This allows them to later curate your vein treatments according to your insurance coverage options and provide a detailed overview of the treatment costs. As such, your vein treatment at the spider vein clinic in TX starts before you even set foot in the vein clinic.
2. Consultation
Your spider vein treatment will start with a thorough consultation with a highly-trained vein doctor. The vein doctor will ask several questions, discuss your symptoms, and examine your leg veins to determine if you have underlying chronic venous insufficiency. Venous insufficiency is the medical condition responsible for most vein problems, including spider veins and varicose veins. It’s a circulatory disorder wherein the collapse of your vein valves makes blood flow backward and accumulate in the leg veins, leading to bulging vein walls. Common symptoms of vein disease include leg heaviness, frequent leg cramps, throbbing leg veins, leg pain, leg swelling, and restless legs, especially at the end of the day.
3. Diagnosis
After discussing your symptoms and examining the leg veins, the vein doctor will diagnose the root cause of your vein problems. They’ll review your medical history and administer an ultrasound diagnostic test called duplex ultrasound. The vascular imaging test is important because it confirms the presence or absence of chronic venous insufficiency. It also reveals the diseased saphenous vein responsible for the vein problems, thereby allowing vein doctors to curate a treatment plan. Diagnosing the underlying vein disease allows the vein doctor to provide long-term relief from spider veins and varicose veins. Treating spider veins without addressing vein disease is a mistake — the spider veins will simply return later.
4. Treatment Planning
The vein doctor will curate a personalized and comprehensive vein treatment plan after diagnosing vein disease. If you have vein disease, the vein doctor will have to treat the underlying problem before focusing on cosmetic relief. If you don’t have vein disease, the vein doctor will provide cosmetic treatment for spider veins and superficial varicose veins. However, the vein doctor will also curate your treatment plan based on your specific symptoms, medical history, family history, allergies, and insurance coverage options. Furthermore, the vein treatment options will also depend on the spider veins and varicose veins’ locations, size, appearance, and other factors. The vein doctor will provide an overview of the treatment in advance.
5. Primary Vein Treatment
The primary vein treatment is meant for patients with underlying chronic venous insufficiency. At this stage, the vein doctor has one goal — destroying the diseased saphenous vein responsible for your vein problems. Once the diseased vein is neutralized, the accumulated blood reroutes into healthier leg veins to restore blood circulation. This can be done using numerous methods, such as thermal energy, laser energy, medical adhesives, or mechanical damage.
Endovenous Ablation
The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin’s surface to insert a catheter into the diseased saphenous vein under ultrasound guidance. Once the catheter is lodged in place, the vein doctor delivers tumescent anesthesia to the vein. The catheter is finally activated to generate thermal energy or laser energy, destroying the diseased vein.
ClariVein
The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin’s surface to insert a special catheter with a rotating tip into the damaged vein. When activated, the catheter’s rotating tip scratches the vein’s walls while delivering a sclerosant medicine. The mechanical damage and the sclerosant medicine destroy the diseased vein.
VenaSeal
The vein doctor injects medical-grade adhesive into the diseased saphenous vein under ultrasound guidance. The vein glue seals the diseased vein’s walls, turning it into a hardened tissue eventually absorbed by the body. This is a relatively new procedure, and it’s not covered by most insurance providers.
6. Cosmetic Vein Treatment
The cosmetic vein treatment is meant for patients without underlying chronic venous insufficiency — this can be after the primary vein treatment or if you don’t have vein disease from the very beginning. The vein doctor uses minimally invasive procedures to remove the superficial leg veins and restore your legs’ appearance.
Sclerotherapy
The vein doctor injects a medicine called sclerosant into the spider veins to fuse their walls. The spider veins shrink, harden, and fade away from the skin’s surface. In some cases, the sclerosant medicine is agitated with air to produce a foamy solution that covers larger varicose veins.
Ambulatory Phlebectomy
The vein doctor makes small incisions on the skin’s surface to remove the superficial varicose veins. The incision scars gradually heal and fade away. This technique is particularly useful for extremely large varicose veins.
Schedule a Consultation
The state-of-the-art varicose vein and spider vein clinic in TX maintains a flawless track record with 5-star ratings and reviews from all patients due to the comprehensive vein care approach. Since we address the root cause of your vein problems (rather than just the superficial symptoms), the risk of recurrence is minimal. And since we curate the vein treatment plan according to your specific medical history, the risk of side effects and complications is minimal. The spider vein clinic is located at 2900 Weslayan St Suite 650, Houston, near The Galleria shopping mall. Please schedule an appointment to learn more.
To learn more about our accredited vein centers, please visit www.veintreatmentclinic.com. Our spider and varicose vein treatment clinics are certified by the IAC as vascular imaging centers and vein treatment centers of excellence. We have local affiliates in New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Texas and California, all of which are held to the highest standards of patient-centered, compassionate, care. We offer the latest technology at every location, and our harvard-trained medical directors lead a collaborative effort to ensure the best outcome for every patient we meet.
Book a Consultation
Scheduling a consultation with one of our vein treatment experts is one of the best ways to determine the proper resolution for your varicose veins. The treatments can include sclerotherapy, laser or radiofrequency ablation, a medication called Varithena, or procedures such as Venaseal, or Clarivein.
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