How to Get Rid of Varicose Veins

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For some people, varicose veins and their smaller cousins, spider veins, are merely a cosmetic issue. For others, however, the larger veins are a source of persistent throbbing pain.

According to the Mayo Clinic at mayoclinic.com, varicose veins occur most frequently in individuals between the ages of 30 and 70. Risk factors increase with age. Women are more likely than men to develop them. Genetics, obesity, and standing for long periods of time also predispose an individual to this problem.

These days, treatment to get rid of these troublesome vessels usually doesn’t involve an overnight hospital stay or a miserable, painful recovery. Patients have a choice of trying several self-care techniques before seeking surgery to get rid of the veins.

Self-care

Many lifestyle and home remedies reduce the discomfort of varicose veins. Three important ways are increasing circulation in your legs by walking or by any other doctor-approved form of exercise, shedding any extra weight, and watching your intake of salt. You should also avoid high heels and clothing that constricts your waist, legs or groin.

Varicose veins will bother you less if you take several short breaks each day to elevate your legs above heart level. You should also avoid long periods of sitting or standing as well as sitting with your legs crossed.

Before deciding they need surgery to get rid of their varicose veins, many patients will want to try wearing compression stockings all day. These hose help veins and leg muscles move blood more efficiently. They’re available at most pharmacies and medical supplies stores.

Surgery

When self-care isn’t enough, your doctor might suggest one of several outpatient vein treatments. Sclerotherapy involves injecting small- and medium-sized veins. Although the solution closes them, multiple injections might be needed.

Doctors use laser treatments on smaller varicose veins as well as spider veins. A catheter-assisted procedure utilizes a heated tool to make large veins collapse and seal, then self-destruct.

Vein stripping requires making a small incision, then removing a long vein through it. Your doctor might instead opt to perform an ambulatory phlebectomy. This procedure removes small veins though very small skin punctures, leaving minimal scarring.

For advanced cases with leg ulcers, the surgeon might perform endoscopic vein surgery. Using a thin video camera, the doctor closes varicose veins. He or she then removes them through small incisions.

Because there are currently so many advertisements for varicose vein treatment, patients must be wise consumers. The Mayo Clinic advises caution when viewing ads that claim treatment that’s “unique,” “permanent,” or “painless.”

It’s important to ask your physician about any potential side effects and risks regarding the procedure you’re considering. Patients should also ask up front about the potential cost. Some health insurance policies consider the treatment cosmetic surgery and therefore won’t cover it. Many policies require the patient to have specific symptoms like swelling and bleeding before deeming surgery a medical necessity.

While treatment techniques to get rid of painful vessels have improved dramatically over the years, all patients should realize that they might face a recurrence of varicose veins at some point.

Exercise For Sagging Breast

Don't want to go under the knife to lift your breasts?  Happy with your size but you would like to perk them up a bit?

Though people claim that its fun growing old gracefully, believe me no one is prepared to deal with the nuances of old age? Talking about growing age, women are the most concerned lot. Whether its wrinkles on the face or sagging of the breasts, every feature of ripening is traumatic for them. While the former can still be treated, what with the number of home remedies and expensive beauty products, sagging breasts is a natural phenomenon and hard to treat completely. Whatever be the reason, genetics, aging process, rapid weight loss, pregnancy or a lack of estrogen brought on by menopause, there are no concrete ways to uplift the breasts, making them firm. However, by indulging in regular exercise, you can definitely enhance their look, increasing the strength and muscular endurance. Nevertheless, do not wait for magic to happen over night. In the following lines, we have provided easy exercise for sagging breast.

 

Easy Breast Firming Exercises

 

Push Ups

This might come as a surprise to you, but the push-ups that you learnt as early as in middle school is the best exercise to treat sagging breast. It does not matter whether you do the standard push up or the modified one, what matters is that by doing push ups, you will be able to attain firm, sagging-free breasts. The standard push-up is the one, wherein your toes and hands touch the floor and you slide up and down. In a modifies push, you are supported by your hands and bent knees, with your back in a straight position. The best feature about this exercise is that you do not need to invest in any equipment. So, just do some push-ups regularly and watch your breasts become firmer than ever before.

 

Dumbbell Fly

Dumbbell fly is another effective exercise to get rid of sagging breasts. For this exercise, you would require a pair of light dumbbells. The ones of about five-to-eight pounds would be fine. You would also need a bench, on which you would be doing the exercise. Now, talking about the exercise, you need to lie on the bench, with your arms stretched out to your sides, with your palms positioned up and the elbows slightly bent. Keeping the elbows slightly bent, bring the dumbbells over your head, together. Repeat the process about 8 to 12 times. Performing three sets of this exercise regularly would surely bring about a firmness of your breasts. 

 

Incline Press

Incline press is yet another good exercise to tone up your sagging breasts, making them firmer. For this exercise, you need to rest on a bench that is inclined to a position of 30 degrees. Now, plant your feet on the floor, while resting your back on the bench. Holding the barbell with average weights, wider than shoulder width, lift it off a rack, lowering it to your upper chest. Now, touch the chest lightly, holding the position till the count of two and then going back to the previous position. Repeat the exercise about 8 to 12 times. A total of three sets of this exercise, performed on a regular basis, would be effective in making your breasts firm.

 

Tips

• To enhance the result, supplement your breast lift workout with strength training in your arms and lower body, along with cardiovascular interval training.
• At the time of performing the exercise, it is essential to wear supportive sports bra. Make sure it is of the perfect size and utmost comfortable.
• Have a realistic approach. A degree of sagging is natural and every woman can deal with this, without undergoing expensive surgeries.
• Stand and sit in a correct posture and who knows that’s all you would require to make you look vibrant. 

resource: lifestyle.iloveindia.com

New Virtual Makeover Tool Lets Patients Sample Plastic Surgery Results For Free

For prospective cosmetic surgery patients interested in viewing before and after plastic surgery results without the actual surgery, New Jersey plastic surgeon Robert Zubowski, MD, now offers the free virtual plastic surgery makeover tool available on his website.

Paramus, NJ (PRWEB) September 8, 2009 -- With more than 12 million cosmetic procedures performed each year, the economic downturn hasn't taken a bite out of America's quest to look more youthful. In fact, according to a recent study by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, some are even turning to plastic surgery procedures like facelift surgery, eyelid surgery, and other anti-aging treatments even in this bad economy, to gain a competitive advantage in the workplace.

My first piece of advice is to make sure you are doing the plastic surgery for yourself

and make sure you are not doing it to look twenty years younger - but instead to look the best you can at your real age.

The question is: are working men and women ready for the trip back in time?

Now, thanks to a new virtual cosmetic surgery makeover tool on the Robert Zubowski MD Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery website (www.drzubowski.com), anyone considering plastic surgery can sample the results by uploading their picture, choosing a procedure, and sampling the results in seconds -- without undergoing surgery. This new technology allows prospective plastic surgery patients in the New Jersey area to view simulated before and after cosmetic surgery photographs for free in the privacy of their own home.

Real Housewives of New Jersey plastic surgeon, Dr. Robert Zubowski, has some other advice on how to prepare for the cosmetic surgery choice you make:

"My first piece of advice is to make sure you are doing the plastic surgery for yourself," says Dr. Zubowski, "and make sure you are not doing it to look twenty years younger - but instead to look the best you can at your real age."

Dr.Zubowski, a Bergen County, New Jersey plastic surgeon, also advises his patients to know exactly what it is they want, to do their homework and research plastic surgery procedures so they know what to expect, to plan for the financial commitment it takes to cover the cost of plastic surgery ahead of time, to have a support group of family and friends ready to help, and to prepare for any complications that may arise by talking to your plastic surgeon and asking questions.

About Dr. Robert Zubowski, Real Housewives of New Jersey Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Robert Zubowski is a renowned Bergen County plastic surgeon who has been addressing the cosmetic and reconstructive needs of women, men and children for more than 20 years. He completed his general surgery residency at New York Medical College and an additional residency at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation, He has served as an associate professor of Plastic Surgery at New York Medical College and as the plastic surgery specialty director of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Alumni Association, where he is also an adjunct staff member. He is a former associate director of plastic surgery at Ridgewood's The Valley Hospital and holds a Certificate of Advanced Education in Cosmetic Surgery from the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Zubowski is also co-founder of the New Jersey chapter of Image Reborn, a non-profit support group for breast reconstruction patients and he works pro bono for Interplast, traveling to Third World countries to perform reconstructive surgeries for children born with birth defects. He also invests in his own community, formerly serving as president of his town's Board of Health and as a member of its recreation commission.

Dr. Zubowski is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Plastic Surgery, the American Medical Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has appeared as an expert on numerous news and talk shows including The View and Fox News, and was recently featured in a segment of The Real Housewives of New Jersey .He was also was voted Bergen County's number one plastic surgeon by the Bergen Record.

For more information about the free virtual plastic surgery makeover tool available on the website, or to schedule a cosmetic surgery consultation, contact Anne Carbone at the Robert Zubowski, M.D. Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, located in Paramus, NJ. 201-261-7550. 

resource: prweb.com