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Vein Treatment Clinic: Best Vein Clinic in Massapequa, NY
Vein Treatment Clinic, Long Island, is the best vein clinic in Massapequa, NY. Our state-of-the-art vein center only provides minimally invasive varicose vein treatments after carefully diagnosing the root cause of your spider veins and varicose veins. We also believe in a personalized approach to vein care. As such, we customize each treatment plan to your specific needs.
Furthermore, Vein Treatment Clinic is managed and run by Dr. Caroline Novak, the best board-certified vein doctor in Massapequa, NY. Dr. Novak is an incredibly talented vein doctor who has performed hundreds of varicose vein treatments without any complications. She’s also incredibly friendly and compassionate, ensuring that your vein treatment is emotionally and physically comfortable.
Vein Treatment Clinic is also highly accessible. Our vein center is a short 10-minutes drive from Massapequa via NY-27E and NY-27A, located on the border of Suffolk County and Nassau County. You can schedule an appointment with our vein clinic in Massapequa right now. However, if you have any concerns about the vein treatment process, please read this complete article.
Step 1: Diagnosing the root cause of varicose veins and spider veins
The first step in all vein treatments is diagnosing the root cause of varicose veins and spider veins. Most vein problems, including varicose veins and spider veins, occur because of an underlying circulatory disorder called chronic venous insufficiency.
Venous insufficiency is a condition in which your vein valves — usually responsible for smooth blood circulation to the heart — collapse. When that happens, blood flows backward due to gravity and accumulates in your leg veins. Over time, the accumulated blood leads to vein dilation and the emergence of various leg vein problems.
As such, your vein doctor will look for signs and symptoms of vein disease, such as restless legs, frequent leg cramps, throbbing leg veins, etc. Following that, the vein doctor will use Duplex Ultrasound to visualize the blood flow in your leg veins. If you have vein disease, they’ll identify venous reflux, i.e., blood flowing backward in your leg veins.
Duplex Ultrasound accomplishes several goals — it confirms venous insufficiency, and it identifies the diseased saphenous vein responsible for your spider veins and varicose veins.
Step 2: Minimally invasive vein treatments for venous insufficiency
If you have venous insufficiency, the vein doctor will recommend minimally invasive vein treatments. They may recommend one of the following vein treatments — radiofrequency ablation, endovenous laser ablation, and VenaSeal.
Radiofrequency ablation is a minimally invasive vein treatment in which the vein doctor uses thermal energy to treat vein disease. The vein doctor creates an incision on your skin and inserts a catheter under ultrasound guidance. Once the catheter is lodged inside the saphenous vein, the vein doctor injects anesthesia to the vein’s walls. Finally, the vein doctor activates the catheter to generate thermal energy, collapsing the diseased saphenous vein. The accumulated blood flows to healthier veins, restoring smooth blood circulation to the heart.
Endovenous laser ablation is a minimally invasive vein procedure in which the vein physician uses laser energy to treat vein disease. The vein dr creates an incision and inserts a laser fiber under ultrasound guidance. Once the endovenous laser is in the diseased vein, they apply local anesthesia to protect the surrounding tissues. Finally, the vein doctor activates the laser fiber, using laser energy to destroy the diseased vein. The accumulated blood flows to healthier veins, restoring smooth blood circulation to the heart.
VenaSeal is a minimally invasive vein treatment and medical adhesive used to treat vein disease. The vein doctor injects VenaSeal (the name of a medical adhesive) into the diseased saphenous vein under ultrasound guidance. VenaSeal fuses the vein’s wall, effectively shutting it down. The diseased vein shuts down, and the accumulated blood reroutes to healthier veins. Meanwhile, the diseased vein hardens and gets absorbed by the body.
Please note that you don’t need all of these vein treatments. Your vein doctor will discuss the pros and cons of all these methods, allowing you to make an informed decision. Radiofrequency ablation and endovenous laser ablation are the only varicose vein treatments eligible for insurance coverage. VenaSeal is a relatively new vein treatment, so it’s not yet approved for insurance coverage.
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Step 3: Cosmetic procedures to treat superficial varicose veins and spider veins
Minimally invasive vein treatments address the underlying diseased vein, but they don’t get rid of the visible varicose veins and spider veins on your skin. If you want to remove all of the superficial varicose veins, you’ll need to opt for non-essential cosmetic procedures. That’s where sclerotherapy and ambulatory phlebectomy come in.
Ambulatory phlebectomy is a minimally invasive varicose vein treatment in which the vein doctor creates incisions on your skin and physically extracts the superficial varicose veins. Sclerotherapy is a minimally invasive spider vein treatment in which the vein doctor injects sclerosant solution into the spider veins, hardening them into scar tissues that eventually get absorbed by the body and fade away.
Both sclerotherapy and ambulatory phlebectomy are cosmetic procedures because they only remove the varicose veins and spider veins without addressing the underlying vein disease. As such, minimally invasive cosmetic procedures aren’t eligible for insurance coverage.
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