“I hadn’t ever thought of this as a disease until I heard the staff at VEININNOVATIONS calling it that.”

That’s what metro Atlantan Karen Littlejohn says about the varicose veins that used to throb and bother her as well as keep her legs from looking as nice as she liked. She isn’t alone in thinking that varicose veins are just another part of pregnancy and aging that women are expected to accept, but that doesn’t mean the prevailing opinion is correct.

Varicose veins are actually one of the most severe types of vein disease, affecting 8% of females by ages 20-29 and nearly three-quarters of females by the time they reach their 60s. The Society for Interventional Radiology estimates that approximately half of U.S. adults have some type of vein disease, whether it’s varicose veins, spider veins or some other condition.

Fortunately, vein disease is also very treatable – as Karen Littlejohn discovered. She had a procedure called sclerotherapy, in which a solution is injected into abnormal veins that causes the vein walls to become non-functional and, in most cases, disappear.

“I couldn’t see exactly what was happening because of the position I was in, but the staff at VEININNOVATIONS said they could actually see the veins reacting to the treatment,” Littlejohn says. “They said the veins were disappearing before their eyes.”

The physicians of VEININNOVATIONS specialize in comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of venous disease. VEININNOVATIONS focuses solely on vein problems and uses a non-invasive Doppler duplex study to assess valve problems and identify the best treatment plan.

VEININNOVATIONS is located at 1150 Hammond Drive, Suite B-2140 in Atlanta. For more information or to schedule a patient consultation, call 770-632-9514.

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