Non-Surgical Advances in Vein Treatment

I was at one of these meetings for the fat reduction. I ran to a Dr. Hunt who is doing ultrasound guided sclerotherapy for varicose veins. I'd never really heard of it before because the way we treated varicose veins with surgery and he had been doing this for several years where they were using a certain type of chemical, basically a soap type solution to destroy veins that were on the legs and a lot of times they were just ugly veins and sometimes they were really sick veins. And he trained me how to do this. It was really not widely available and I got that skill set up. We started treating people with varicose veins without surgery. We were the first ones in Michigan to do that. Right around 05 or 06 these devices became available, not just FDA approved, recovered by insurance to replace the ultrasound guided sclerotherapy with a laser or radio frequency device that would destroy the vein from the inside, again without surgery. Next thing you know, we had the biggest vein practice in North America.