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Health Risks of Prolonged Sitting

The AMA adopted policy recently recognizing potential risks of prolonged sitting and encouraging employers, employees and others to make available alternatives to sitting, such as standing work stations and isometric balls. Poor vein health is also related to prolonged sitting. If you must sit for...
Filip K
June 30, 2013
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BlogFacial Veins

Spider Veins on Your Face? Get VeinGogh® Facts Here!

How does VeinGogh work? The VeinGogh Ohmic Thermolysis System generates a tiny, regulated, high-frequency current delivered to the vessel via a hair-thin probe. A “microburst” of energy selectively heats the vein, coagulating the blood and collapsing the vessel wall, which is quickly absorbed into the...
Filip K
January 2, 2013
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BlogVein Center

Beware of Vein Centers Using Compounded Medications!

Medication from a compounding pharmacy contaminated with fungus has sickened hundreds of patients nationwide and killed 15 patients so far. Did you know that many vein care centers use compounded sclerotherapy medications to save money? Ask your vein care physician if they use FDA approved...
Filip K
October 17, 2012
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Pregnancy and Your Veins

The primary causes of spider and varicose veins are heredity and pregnancy.  Each successive pregnancy increases the chance of developing both cosmetic and medical vein problems. Vein problems during pregnancy usually start in the first trimester because it is primarily a hormone-related process. Later during...
Filip K
April 26, 2012
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BlogVein Center

Why the name Vein911®?

Vein911® is a brand built upon urgency. The Vein911® name and positioning of “For life’s little and not-so-little emergencies” was conceived because the slow and gradual nature of venous reflux disease is the main reason patients often ignore life-style limiting symptoms of venous disease that can be...
Filip K
February 12, 2012
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BlogPelvic Pain

Unexplained Pelvic Pain?

If you have pelvic pain or discomfort that has not been explained or adequately treated you may be suffering from Pelvic Congestion Syndrome (PCS). Learn more here about vein disease and pelvic intervention. Vein911® — the vein only specialists because veins are all we do!
Filip K
November 9, 2011
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BlogSpider Veins

Do Spider Veins Cause Symptoms?

Although spider veins are mainly a cosmetic problem, they can also be an indication of more serious vein disease and even though clinical research indicates that some spider veins may have associated symptoms, the treatment of spider veins is not covered by insurance.
Filip K
September 18, 2011