Dr. Charles Mok explains how leg swelling signals venous disease, from mild varicose veins to severe cases with skin damage and ulcers. In-office treatments can disable the faulty veins without surgery, though bruising and discoloration may follow. The goal is to heal ulcers, reduce swelling, and restore leg health.
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So I really break down vein patients into a few categories. So some of our patients that just have some varicose veins, maybe a little minor swelling and discomfort, we do a treatment. It's non surgical. It's done in the office. And your leg will look like it did a few years ago pretty quickly. There'll be some bruising and discoloration for a while. Then there's people with a little bit more advanced disease. Leg's pretty swollen, skin's a little discolored, maybe some rust color on the skin. This is something that we're more in the advanced stages of vein disease. The treatment is pretty much the same as a person with minor vein disease might need a couple more sessions, but it's pretty much the same. We can reverse that and turn those abnormal veins off. And your body would just start healing itself. In the last stage, where somebody has a, what's called a venous ulceration open sore, we want to get that leg healed so there's no longer open sores. We want to get that swelling down. We want this open sore to have way less recurrence. And they're never going to go back to a pretty leg, but the leg will feel better, it'll look a lot better, it'll be much healthier.