The Question Is: What Causes Varicose Veins?

In this article we will address the question of what causes varicose veins and the logical follow-up question, what can help with varicose veins. Neither answer is simple or singular, but we will discuss what factors go into both the cause and the help. We have attempted to discuss both preventative measures and after occurrence treatments. This is just a cursory article providing a background and should be a starting place for your research. All medical procedures have risks and should be evaluated with that risk in mind.

What causes varicose veins is a combination of factors and causes. The first factor to discuss, being heredity. You inherit the propensity towards varicose veins from your parents. This is a factor you can do nothing about, but the knowledge of it can help you do preventative work to minimize the propensity. Spend a little time, 10 minutes or so three or four times a day and get your feet above your heart. Also preventative, is exercise, under a doctor’s review of appropriate exercises. The use of the muscles in the legs helps force the blood to pump correctly.

The next factor, in what causes varicose veins, is closely related and its genetics. If you are a female you are more likely to have varicose veins, then if you are a man. Not a thing can be done with this factor except the preventative measures we listed above.

The next items to be considered are several items which bring on varicose veins. The items are pregnancy, obesity, menopause, aging, prolonged standing, leg injury and abdominal straining. Which of there is your factor is almost impossible to determine. It seems that there is a need for a combination of factors to bring about varicose veins. What causes varicose veins in seems to be an unhappy meeting of several factors in a single person. The same preventative measures we discussed above can help with these factors also. However, the use of a surgical type pressure stocking can be of great help in preventing varicose veins.

Once you have varicose veins, the facts of what causes varicose veins, is less important to you. You are concentrating on treatment. The preventative measures above can help keep additional varicose veins from occurring. The treatment of varicose veins in everything from laser, ultrasound and radio frequency have found success in the treatment. The more traditional method of surgery is still available but less favored as time goes by, simply because any surgery is a risk and it is more risky than the new methods of the ultrasound, radio frequency and laser.