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What To Expect During Your First Visit to a Vein Clinic

Visiting any doctor for the first time can make you nervous because you don’t know what to expect. Seeing a vein doctor at a vein clinic is no different. Fortunately, the first visit to a vein clinic is almost always simple and easy. Here’s…
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Common Procedures that the Vein Clinic of Kansas City Offers

Missouri Vein Specialists is a premier vein clinic serving the Kansas City metro area. Our team of vein specialists, headed by board-certified vein doctor Dr. Scott Darling, has been providing patients with excellent results since 1999. We are…
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We Are the Vein Clinic of Kansas City: Here’s How We Can Help You

Do you have swollen, throbbing, itchy, or restless legs? Do your spider veins or varicose veins make you feel uncomfortable and self-conscious? If your answer is “yes,” you are likely suffering from a type of vein disease. Vein diseases…
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What Types of Treatment Does a Vein Surgeon Offer?

It’s no surprise that we underestimate the importance of healthy veins until something goes wrong with them. Being a part of the circulatory system, the health of your veins is vital to the proper functioning of the body. Veins work against…
Doctor examining a patient's veins

What to Expect at Your First Visit to a Vein Clinic

The health of your veins provides a useful glimpse into your overall health. A key part of the circulatory system, the veins return deoxygenated blood to the heart. However, when these blood vessels get damaged, it can impair the flow of blood…
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MVS Vein Pain? Talk to a Vein Doctor

Your veins carry blood back to your heart from all over the body, including the legs. They have to work against gravity to do this. To make it easier, there are valves in the veins that close to keep the blood from flowing back down. Should…
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What Does a Damaged Vein Feel Like?

Blood circulates through the arteries, capillaries, and veins. These blood vessels are located throughout the body, with arteries bringing fresh blood to the tissues and organs, capillaries acting as go-between vessels, and veins carrying “used”…
Legs with varicose veins
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Vein Doctor: Simple Steps to Get Rid of Varicose Veins

While varicose veins are often innocuous, they are downright unattractive, annoying, and in some cases, even painful. The good news is there are things you can do to effectively get rid of them— and it’s not rocket science. Listed below…
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Arm Lymphedema: Symptoms and Treatment

Our blood gets all the publicity, but lymph is also a key fluid in our body. The lymphatic system is essentially the garbage-removal service of the body, as the lymph fluid picks up and delivers germs and waste from the body and prepares it…

Tips For Finding The Best Vein Clinic For You

Do you have problems with your veins? Most of the time, people think that vein problems are only a cosmetic issue — varicose or spider veins, for example. However, it’s best not to ignore them: a cosmetic issue today might be a health risk…