- Avoid prolonged sitting or standing: If your job requires you to sit for extended periods, take a few moments to regularly flex and extend your legs, feet, and ankles. This helps the blood flowing in the leg veins. If you stand for long periods, take advantage of breaks to sit down and elevate your feet.
- Exercise regularly: Walking is especially beneficial for your venous system.
- Lose weight: Being significantly overweight puts increased stress on the venous system. It makes it more difficult for the blood to flow up the leg veins, back toward the heart.
- Elevate your legs: When resting at the end of the day, elevate your legs to take some of the pressure out of the leg veins, decreasing the work against gravity to get the blood back up to the chest.
- Wear compression stockings: This is especially important if your job requires that you stand or sit the entire day (nurse, teacher, etc.). Compression stockings are beneficial in helping prevent varicose veins when you don’t have the freedom to move.
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In 2009, Dr. Cutchen founded Albuquerque Vein & Laser Institute, a clinic dedicated solely to the diagnosis and treatment of venous disease. His goal was to provide the most advanced diagnostic and treatment options all in the comfort of his office without the need for hospitalization. Our goal is to treat every patient the way we ourselves would hope to be treated.
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