Our physicians will review your questionnaire responses and photos and offer their feedback on whether or not you should consider vein treatment.
Spider veins could be a warning of medical venous disease if symptomatic.
Usually not symptomatic, treatment is simple and usually not paid for by insurances, they consider it cosmetic.
Reticular veins can be painful but usually not covered by insurance.
Small varicose veins can progress when not treated to larger varicose veins.
As in this image.
Then skin can break down.
And continue to break down.
They can heal up for a short time and reoccur over time until the varicose veins and the disease which is the main cause of them is treated. In our practice there have been patients with a wound they had been dealing with for 10 years or more. Once the underlying disease is treated the wounds will begin to heal.
Sometimes you can develop non healing wounds that start out small.
This is an actual patient that received treatment and the wound healed.