Risk reduction strategies for Varicose Veins?

We've mentioned the risk factors associated with both and some of these are non-modifiable such as age and sex, however others such as weight gain as well as obesity or increased weight or lifestyles such as work-related and lifestyle where you're on your feet for longer periods of time, these can be modified. There's also conservative treatment options that are less invasive and they may help with the symptoms such as compression stockings. In terms of treatment, well there is a number of treatments for varicose veins. So these include, we sort of discussed the conservative options, but the mainstay of treatment remains some technology such as radiofrequency ablation or laser glue or even foam sclerotherapy that its main goal is to close that vein with the use of either heat or the modalities that I mentioned, which close the vein that's incompetent, which forces blood down a vein that is working appropriately so that it drains out of the leg. And so this reduces the overall symptoms that you're having. In terms of lymphedema, compression remains the mainstay of treatment to try to improve drainage of the lymph fluid from the leg. Weight loss helps in these situations as well.