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THIS4@4@ GOOD T4@O GO SEGMENT IS SPONSORED BY SPECTRUM HEALTH4@ MEDICAL GROUP
DO YOU HAVE VARICOSE OR SPIDER
VEINS?
IF YOU DO YOU PROBABLY HAVE
QUESTIONS ABOUT EXERCISE
WHETHER IT'S SAFE AND WHICH
EXERCISES ARE BEST FOR MAYBE4@
SLOWING THE PROGRESSION.
AND WHAT ABOUT AN ATHLETE?
CAN THEY POSSIBLY HAVE VARICOSE
OR SPIDERMAN'S?
DR. JENNIFER WATSON IS FROM THE
SPECTRUM MEDICAL GROUP VAINE
CENTER AND SHE IS HERE4@ TO TALK
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
MAINTAINING HEALTHY LEGS AND AN
ACTIVE4@ LIFESTYLE.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, DR.
WATSON. 4@
IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE.
THANK YOU.
WHAT CAUSES VARICOSE VEINS?
ARE THEY THE SAME THING4@?
SO THEY ARE CAUSED BY THE SAME
PROCESS BUT THERE ARE A LITTLE
BIT DIFFERENT MEANING THAT THEY
BOTH HAVE TO DO WITH FAULTY
VALVES ON THE INSIDE WHERE THE
BLOOD IS POOLING ARE NOT BEING4@
CLEARED CORRECTLY4@.
VARICOSE VEINS WE TYPICALLY
THINK OF AS BIGGER4@ CAUSING MOE
ISSUES OR SYMPTOMS, MAYBE SOME
SWELLING, SOME ACORDING WHEREAS
SPIDER VEINS OR THOSE UNSIGHTLY
ONES THAT4@ WE MAY NOT LIKE THE
APPEARANCE OF BUT THEY TEND TO
BE SMALLER AND FLATTER AND4@
DON'T REALLY AFFECT THE
FUNCTION OF OUR LEGS.
4@WHAT CAUSES US SO THERE ARE A
LOT OF DIFFERENT CAUSE4@S.
SOMETIMES IT'S JUST KIND OF BAD
LUCK.
THEY CAN BE GENETIC.
THEY RUN IN FAMILIES BUT IT CAN
ALSO BE CAUSED BY INACTIVITY
BEING A LITTLE OVERWEIGHT
PREGNANCY CAN CAUSE THESE4@4@ AD
SO THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT
CAUSES OF SPIDER VEINS.
I4@ THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING A LT
NOW IS JUST THE INACTIVITY
BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY WITH
COVID PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HOME A
LOT MORE.
YOU KNOW WE'RE SITTING AT HOME
NOW WORKING FROM HOME NOT B4@EIG
AS MOBILE.
SO IT'S A LOT4@ INACTIVITY >>
THESE DAYS.
SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT AN
ATHLETE, SOMEBODY WHO4@ IS ACTIE
CAN'T GET SPIDER VEINS?
IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY CAN'T
BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THEY
COULD STILL HAVE THOSE BAD
GENES4@ OR MAYBE THEY'VE HAD
MULTIPLE PREGNANCIES BUT IT
DEFINITELY HELPS4@ TO BE MORE
ACTIVE BECAUSE THE MORE ACTIVE
YOU ARE THE LESS CHANCE OF
THOSE LARGER MEDICALLY
NECESSARY VEINS COMING UP4@ IN
YOU KNOW, ANY INACTIVITY IS
GOING TO WORSEN THINGS SO IF
YOU HAVE A FEW4@ THEY MAKE IT
WORSE WITH INACTIVITY.
SO LET'S GET PEOPLE ACTIVE THEN
WHAT KINDS OF EXERCISES4@ ARE
GOOD FOR STAVING OFF THE
DISEASE4@?
YEAH.
DISEASE4@? YEAH. SO WHAT'S REALLY GOOD IS
ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOUR CALF
MUSCLES SQUEEZE IN MEDICINE.
WE CALL IT THE CALF MUSCLE
PUMP.
IT'S THIS REALLY4@ IMPORTANT
GROUP OF MUSCLES THAT SQUEEZE
AND CLEAR THE BLOOD.
SO IF YOU THINK OF THAT THEN
YOU'LL KIND OF KNOW WHAT TO DO
.
SO RUNNING WALKING, ELLIPTICAL,
SWIMMING, BIKING, ANYTHING4@ IT
SQUEEZES YOUR CALF MUSCLE.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE TELL ME HEY
DOC, I REALLY CAN'T4@ DO THOSE
THINGS BECAUSE MY4@ OTHER MEDICL
ISSUES IF THEY CAN AT LEAST DO
TOE U4@PS4@ OR THEY F4@OOT THEI
THINGS BECAUSE MY4@ OTHER MEDICL ISSUES IF THEY CAN AT LEAST DO TOE U4@PS4@ OR THEY F4@OOT THEIE
UP AND HAVE TO FLIP AND TAP,
YOU KIND OF FEEL THAT CALF
MUSCLE SQUEEZING.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT
TRACK >> CAN4@ PREVENT VARICOSE
VEINS.
I THINK TO SOME EXTENT YOU CAN.
I MEAN THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES
WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO
IF YOU'RE PREGNANT YOU GET SOME
FROM THAT THAT'S KIND THE WAY
IT IS BUT YOU CAN DEFINITELY
PREVENT THINGS FROM GETTING
WORSE IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM
AND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAVE
THEM OFF COMPLETELY IF YOU
REALLY KEEP AS ACTIVE AS YOU
CAN TRY TO MAINTAIN A NORMAL4@
USE COMPRESSION SOCKS
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE SITTING OR@
STANDING FOR PROLONGED PERIODS.
THE VEINS4@ OFTEN REFLECT WHAT'S
GOING ON IN THE BODY SO THE
HEALTHIER YOU CAN KEEP YOURSELF@
THE HEALTHIER THEY'RE GOING TO
BE.
WHAT >> ABOUT TREATMENT?
YEAH >>, SO IF YOU ARE
UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE
THESE OR OF TRIED ALL THESE
MEASURES YOU STILL HAVE THEM.
THERE ARE DEFINATELY TREATMENTS@
THAT CAN BE DONE TO ELIMINATE
THE FAULTY VEINS USUALLY STARTS
WITH AN ULTRASOUND WHERE WE
FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WHAT THEY'RE CONNECTED TO AND
THEN THERE'S A SERIES OF THINGS
THAT CAN BE DONE.
USUALLY THEY'RE JUST DONE IN
THE4@ OFFICE SO THESE DO NOT HAE
TO BE BIG INVASIVE PROCEDURES4@
THEY DID TWENTY YEARS >> AGO.
ALL RIGHT.
GOOD NEWS THEN.
WELL, FOR MORE INFORMATION,
FOLKS, YOU CAN CONTACT THE
SPECTRUM HEALTH MEDICAL4@ VAIN
CENTER.
WE HAVE PUT THEIR CONTACT INFO
ON OUR WEBSITE AT ONYOURSIDE
DOTCOM.
DR. WATSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH4@
FOR BEING