Posts tagged with "treatment"
Chronic venous disease is out of the scope of practice of most primary care providers. For this reason many patients are given poor or no advice as to treatment or diagnosis.
Registered Nurses can become Sonographers simply by being trained on the job. There is not a pathway for Sonographer's to become nurses, despite the commonalities between the two professions. If you had a choice in a Registered Nurse or a Registered Vascular Sonographer injecting your veins who would you choose? Most nurses would choose the Sonographer. Who would you want to perform your ultrasound guided procedure a sonographer or a provider with no ultrasound experience? Find out more ....
The gold standard for venous insufficiency is compression ultrasound. Doppler in many ways has been downgraded and some even think it should be eliminated. This thought process causes false negative exams.
Jason, a recently retired administrator, came to Truffles Vein Specialists before proceeding with a left total knee replacement. He had experienced chronic knee pain and mild swelling for nearly a decade, however it had progressively worsened since his retirement. “It’s true, when you retire, you find yourself suddenly more busy. With my new and busy schedule, my left knee became very swollen,” he said. “I developed a bulging lump on the inside and behind my right knee and I had...
Everyone is looking for a quick fix. We all want that magical cure that saves us time and money. I know I wish I could find that magical weight loss drug that helps me drop inches without sweating it out at the gym and counting calories, but the truth is that quick fixes don’t work. The same can be said for varicose vein treatments. The only way to get rid of varicose veins once and for all is to see a specialist, like Dr. Paul Feldman at Truffles Vein Specialists, so you can get a...
You will find that many vein providers advertise the new VenaSeal procedure, however there are only two physicians in the Atlanta area who have actually performed the treatment. Dr. Ricotta in Roswell, Georgia and Dr. Feldman in Fayetteville, Georgia are the only vein doctors to actually perform the procedure at the time of this publication. For those on the south side, who prefer to avoid the task of navigating Atlanta traffic, Dr. Paul Feldman at Truffles Vein Specialists is now offering the...
Natural treatments for varicose veins can be found all over the internet. As a vein specialist, I am astonished at the naivety of the general public when it comes to this condition. It is hard for me to remember a time when I didn’t understand venous anatomy and physiology.
Venous disease is 5 times more prevalent than arterial disease or (PAD). Up until the late 1990's there were very few options for treating and managing varicose vein disease. Confounding the lack of treatment options was the lack of attention that most medical providers put toward the diagnosis or management of the disease. In 2016, there are still medical practitioners who fail to identify vein disease by clinical symptoms. Dr. Paul Feldman a board certified plastic surgeon who has treated...
VenaSeal is now an additional treatment option at Truffles Vein Specialists. Other vein treatments offered at Truffles include radiofrequency ablation, phlebectomy, sclerotherapy, laser and ultrasound guided sclerotherapy.
When it comes to vein treatment there is a lot of information on the internet. Most of the information is formulaic and doesn't really give the patient the keys or a list of items to reference when choosing the best vein provider. 1. Modern vein treatment is performed in the outpatient setting with no general anesthesia. Vein treatment have progressed from the operating room in 1999 to predominately being performed in the physicians office setting. The utility and advances in the use of local...