VARICOSE VEINS IN LEGS(Keywords: varicose veins in legs, home remedies for varicose veins, varicose veins ulcers, relief varicose veins, chiropractic help )I write this week not because varicose veins come into the domain of a chiropractor, but because of my interest in honey. More specifically raw honey ... there's a big difference between raw honey, and what you buy in the supermarket. Yes, there are natural cures for varicose veins, and more in particularly varicose ulcers. CAUSE OF VARICOSE VEINSIn the legs there are valves in the veins so that, when the action of muscles in the legs squeezes the veins, the venous blood (low in oxygen) is squeezed upwards towards the heart. If these valves fail, the blood sinks back down and pools in the lower legs, increasing the pressure in the veins.
Normally there is a pressure gradient between the veins and arteries. Arteries must have higher blood pressure, veins lower, for the normal pumping of blood through the vascular system. If this pressure gradient decreases significantly... varicose veins ulcers. Ouch! This is complex medical science that I won't bore you with, but to gain relief varicose ulcers you do need some understanding of what happens. When the varicose veins in legs become serious due to the rising venous pressure, various substance leak out of the blood vessels into the tissues of the lower limbs (in particular, though you can get varicose veins elsewhere: haemorrhoids, for example). This prevents oxygen and nutrients from reaching the tissues in the lower leg and said tissue begins to die releasing free radicals and other inflammatory factors into the tissues, further aggravating the subcutaneous tissue. In the same way that hyaline cartilage in your joints requires nutrients and oxygen, so does skin, the largest organ in the body. In the joints it is joint fixations (subluxations) that causes hypoxia. The result is Immobilisation Arthritis ... In the legs the result is very painful varicose veins ulcers. They occur mainly on the inner lower leg.
RE-PERFUSIONWhat is very difficult is that, after a period of oxygen and nutrient starvation (called ischemia in medical terms), the restoration of blood circulation in itself causes inflammation in the tissues, further aggravating an already bad situation. Free radicals are released... bad news. It's one of the major problems associated with brain injury after heart failure, stroke and even after loss of blood flow to the brain during an anaesthetic.The tissues don't like repeated bouts of ischemia (low oxygen perfusion) and re-perfusion. And that's exactly what happens in bad varicose veins. Home remedies for varicose veins ulcers - RAISING THE LEGSYou're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't! Raising the legs allows the venous pressure in the lower legs to drop, and the arterial blood starts flowing again. Re-perfusion, in medical terms, and further injury as the inflammatory substances are released into the tissues just below the skin, causing break down of the skin: varicose ulcers.What you really need to avoid is repeated ischemia followed by re-perfusion.
TREATMENTThe standard medical treatment is compression. Compression bandages prevent the reflux of venous blood back into the lower legs keeping the arterial pressure higher than the blood pressure in the veins. Uncomfortable though they may be, it works, and is still the conservative treatment of choice. Cure varicose veins unfortunately doesn't exist and once they have become chronic, the condition needs to be controlled, or the dangers of varicose veins can be an ugly painful nightmare.
HOW TO PREVENT VARICOSE VEINS AND ULCERSNATURAL CURE FOR VARICOSE VEINSWHY ON A CHIROPRACTIC HELP WEBSITE?The reason is fairly simple. Many women, in particular, associate the pain in their legs to the unsightly varicose veins, when in fact the cause lies elsewhere.Either it's really lower back pain and leg pain or very occasionally intermittent claudication, a blockage on the arterial side of the circulation, a condition that primarily smokers get. Of course, old fracture of sprain causing
ankle joint pain
also frequently radiates into the calf muscles, or into the ball of the foot. In fact there are many causes of leg pain, and one should not fall into the trap of assuming that unsightly varicose veins in legs are the cause of the pain.
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