Dr Anna Galazka: Commentary on venous disease

The Leg Club and vWIN Vein Week has been supported by Emma Hardy MP, Chair, The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous Disease.

Prevention is about helping people stay healthy, happy and independent for as long as possible. This means providing people with the knowledge, skills and confidence, and the public’s expectation and need for preventative health promotion and education. Effective communication is key in promoting health education. In this video Mr Lulka Biasi PhD, Consultant Vascular Surgeon provides an informative in-depth overview of venous disease and the importance of early referral, diagnosis and treatment.

Mark Collier, tissue viability expert, talks about compression therapy.

Of the many presentations across the clinical spectrum of chronic venous disease, venous leg ulceration can be considered amongst the most important hence, education to non-health care professionals on the importance of vein awareness is paramount. Expansion of public health promotion now includes raising awareness of preventative management of all aspects of lower limb related problems to the general public. In this video Ellie Lindsay provides an easy to follow overview, tips and the importance of 'Getting to know your legs' raising the public’s awareness of the importance of looking after their legs.

In our eleventh episode, we welcome back our guest speaker Mark Whiteley - a Professor and Consultant Venous Surgeon and Consultant Phlebologist of The Whiteley Clinic, London. Visit https://thewhiteleyclinic.co.uk/team/... for more information. In this episode, Mark expands on treatments that may help or hinder two key concerns when treating varicose veins, specifically Leg Wounds, and Leg Swelling. In both cases, Mark explains the importance of treating the underlying cause of leg wounds and/or leg swelling first to rule out more complex venous disease, lymphedema or arterial issues. This helps ensure more complete, high quality and sustainable results are possible. This concludes the third and final part of Mark's podcasts which have explored themes relating to "Venous Disease". We recommend you follow Prof. Mark Whiteley's work (see previous link) to keep up-to-date with continuing advances, new techniques as well as his ongoing research.

A behind the scenes look at a typical leg Club conference, one of the most prestigious Wound Care related events in the UK. Wide ranging topics are covered by renowned speakers from the UK and also international.