By Michelle Corbet One morning, Caroline Harris, 70, woke up with severe pain in her lower back. Was it the exercise she did? Picking up that heavy object? Climbing a flight of stairs? After a doctor’s visit and an MRI at her local hospital in Huntingdon, Tennessee, Harris found out she had a vertebral compression fracture of the spine. The…
Memphis Vascular offers the latest advances in treatment for varicose veins in Memphis! Venaseal uses a glue rather than heat to close the vein. That means less needle sticks, minimal usage of compression hose, and less bruising! Find out more by watching the video with Dr. Roberts on channel 3! To learn more about vein treatments click here.
Memphis Vascular offers procedures to help with back pain from spine fractures. These procedures are addressing pain in patients and help to reduce the opioid epidemic that is occurring in our society. https://www.beckersspine.com/orthopedic-a-spine-device-a-implant-news/item/40118-curbing-opioid-use-for-vertebral-compression-fractures-with-balloon-kyphoplasty.html
Nation wide, more women are learning about UFE as an alternative to surgery. https://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/articles/2018-01-18/why-many-women-unnecessarily-get-a-hysterectomy
Unsightly and troublesome varicose veins? Typically, when your legs are giving you problems is the best signal you need to do something about them. Symptoms from varicose veins range from constant itching, swelling, pain, discoloration, and even open wounds. You don’t have to see varicose veins to have venous disease in your legs. Many people experience these symptoms without actually…
We can address varicose vein treatment in many different ways. With new technology, the old varicose vein treatment of vein stripping is outdated and hardly performed anymore. New vein treatments such as heat-induced vein ablation, non-thermal ablation, and sclerotherapy are the best varicose vein treatments now. We will mainly discuss varicose vein treatments today, but for more information about varicose…
Venous disease presents itself in many different shapes and sizes. They vary from large visible varicose veins, to veins causing symptoms that are not visible, or to spider veins. Each one has different forms of vein treatments available. Memphis Vascular Center can treat all the above! Let’s discuss some of the vein treatment options available to you. Large varicose veins…
So maybe you have seen commercials or ads by now, and you have thought that having these veins on my legs are really not a big deal. Or you may have thought it is going to be to expensive to get rid of these veins. Well in many cases, your treatments may be covered under your insurance plan. Many times,…
There are different types of veins in your body. Some examples are deep and superficial. Deep veins are centrally located and carry a majority of your blood back to your heart. Superficial veins carry a small portion of your blood and are located closer to your skin. When they are not functioning correctly, they can become varicose veins. Spider or…
There are ways to minimize veins that have appeared during pregnancy and their long term effects. Typically, there are three main causes. The first, probably the most obvious, is that as the baby grows pressure on the veins in the pelvis increases. This will make it harder for the veins in the legs to circulate the blood back to…
