Heavy Aching Legs Treatment Specialist in New York, NY

The main cause of heaviness felt within the legs is often leaky, dilated leg veins, a condition called venous insufficiency. Blood circulation issues often occur in the lower part of the body, particularly the legs. This is mainly due to the veins in our legs that need to fight gravity to move blood out of the legs back up to the heart. If you have venous insufficiency the blood can end up pooling within the legs, ankles, and feet, which will result in the sensation of heaviness within the legs.

Due to venous deficiency, you will feel the sensation of having heavy legs. This will occur due to the veins being heavily damaged and failing to circulate blood back to your heart. The heavy feeling may be due to the surplus of blood pooling within the legs, unable to flow sufficiently, often resulting in swelling and heaviness within the legs.

If you do not get treatment for this, it can lead to spider veins or varicose veins, as well as other vein diseases. A few common causes of vein issues within the legs include sedentary lifestyle, obesity, hormones, genes, age, vitamin deficiencies, and lacking physical activity.

Many patients who have spider veins have noted that they often feel a sensation of heaviness or aching. These are common symptoms that occur with spider or varicose veins, other common symptoms that often occur with spider or varicose veins include:

– Burning, swelling, or cramping sensations
Spider or varicose veins have been known to cause a burning sensation to occur under the skin. Often reported is also swelling within the area and muscle cramping.

– Increased pain in the legs after an extended period of sitting or standing
Many who have painful spider or varicose veins will report increased pain in the legs when they have been sitting or standing for long periods of time, this is largely due to the fact that the blood is trying to pass the veins, and the blood is unable to reach the heart.

– Itching and inflammation
Itching and inflammation are other common symptoms of spider or varicose veins. Patients will sometimes report becoming more sensitive on the legs when clothes are brushing against the affected areas.

– Skin discoloration
Due to spider and varicose veins enlarging the veins, one of the most common symptoms you will experience is discoloration of the skin and surrounding veins.

Spider veins, unlike varicose veins normally do not lead to future complications or serious issues. In many cases, you do not require treatment unless for cosmetic reasons, which is why so many of our patients book to have them taken care of. They become self-conscious or uncomfortable with spider veins being visible, so to reduce the appearance, they contact Elite Veins to have them treated.

To help reduce spider veins, you can wear compression socks, as they are snug-fitting socks or stockings which work to improve your blood flow and effectively slow down the progression of spider veins. Other healthy habits you can work on to try and slow the progression of spider veins are by exercising regularly, losing weight, avoid standing or sitting for extended periods of time. When you do sit, try to keep your legs uncrossed, and elevate your feet on a stool, or ottoman to help.

There are a few home treatments you can work on before visiting a doctor about the heavy sensation in your legs, these treatments include:

– Elevating your legs
– Switching your standing or sitting position
– Wearing compression socks or stockings
– Reduce sodium intake
– Quit smoking
– Avoiding hot baths
– Losing weight
– Staying active

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