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Central Varicose Vein Clinic

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Latent Varicose Veins

Do you still think that varicose veins are only if they bulge out?
Only you know the pain you cannot see.

Central Varicose Vein Clinic was the first to establish the concept of ‘latent varicose veins’.!

Know-how of finding the hidden problematic blood vessels was accumulated from over 10 years of clinical experience.
Central Varicose Vein Clinic finds the exact cause of the patients who searched for the cause of the symptoms because even the university hospitals couldn’t diagnose the Varicose Veins

What is Latent Varicose Veins?

This refers to varicose veins that progress without any outward signs.
Many people are aware that blood vessels appear bumpy or appear blue on the surface of the skin.
Unlike varicose veins, this is a form of the disease that progresses internally without any external signs.

The visible iceberg is only a small part of the whole, and most of it appears to be submerged in water.
Latent varicose veins
are also minimally visible on the outside..

Because of these characteristics, even if you experience leg swelling, numbness, cramps, or cold hands and feet, you cannot suspect varicose veins because there is no apparent problem.
The cause of symptoms is often found in the wrong places, such as nerves or joints. Among all patients with varicose veins, many people develop latent varicose veins, so accurate awareness and attention are needed.

The reason why latent varicose veins are accompanied by symptoms such as edema, numbness, pain, and fatigue is because venous circulation is stagnant and waste products accumulate in the blood vessels.
This is because the swollen blood vessels due to backflow of blood press and irritate the surrounding nerves.
For this reason, patients with latent varicose veins may temporarily have better blood circulation* in their daily lives, which may alleviate their symptoms, but their activity level may decrease.
In the afternoon/evening, symptoms may recur or worsen..

*The venous blood is pushed upward by the vascular pumping action caused by the contraction and relaxation of the calf muscles. Your calf muscles are your second heart..

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