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Move Beyond the Mystery & Get Some Answers

1 out of every 10 Americans reports being in pain regularly. Even more people have health concerns that they just can’t explain – things like feeling fatigued, experiencing heavy or tired legs, or an overall sense that something’s just not right. People who are actively trying to improve their fitness often run into frustrating plateaus when unexplained aches and pains limit their ability to move freely and exercise effectively.

When You Know What the Problem Is, You Can Find A Solution

If you’ve had a hard time discovering what’s causing you to feel less than your best, know that you’re not alone. Nearly 60% of people who have chronic pain report that they’ve seen five or more doctors in an attempt to discover what’s going on.

Wellness Ultrasound is a completely safe, absolutely non-invasive diagnostic procedure that can be used to identify some of the most common causes of unexplained pains and performance-impacting physical symptoms. Blood circulation issues are often the most common culprit. Luckily, once these have been identified, a clear and direct resolution is generally possible with a minimally invasive 20-minute surgical procedure.

Eliminate the Mystery & Move Forward Confidently

One of the worst aspects of having unexplained aches and pains is the very human tendency to imagine the worst-case scenario. This can cause levels of stress and anxiety that are completely unwarranted, which is bad for your physical and emotional well-being.

Having a Wellness Ultrasound can provide the answers you’ve been desperately seeking. Knowledge truly is power. Here at Wellness and Pain, we’ve seen time and time again the sheer relief people experience when they finally know what’s been causing them so much distress. By eliminating the uncertainty, fear and frustration, A Wellness Ultrasound makes it possible for patients to make informed treatment choices that dramatically improve their health and happiness.

Venous Mapping Ultrasound

A Venous Mapping Ultrasound is a non-invasive imaging modality performed in the office. The ultrasound looks inside your blood vessels to see if there are stretched out or dilated veins in the legs that are a source of pain and many other symptoms. This test creates a “map” of your blood vessels to look for medical conditions and to guide treatment options.

Our specially trained licensed Registered Vascular Technologists perform the test in 10 minutes. Our licensed Radiologist then read the images and generates the report that interprets the results.

The Ultrasound works by sending sound waves through the blood vessels in your legs and transforming them into pictures that can tell the physician if your veins are stretched or dilated. It evaluates reflux, which is the blood flowing in the wrong direction, and the width of the veins. It can also evaluate the valves in the veins which are the key mechanism to returning blood to the heart and avoiding trapped blood in the legs and feet.

If the veins are seen to be stretched and the valves are no longer functioning appropriately, the physician can discuss the treatment options available.

There are no side effects to a Vein Mapping Ultrasound. It is painless, harmless and does not use any radiation.

Vein Ablation

NY &  NJ Vein Ablation for Varicose Veins & Vessel Insufficiency

Vessel ablation – formally known as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) – is a minimally invasive and highly effective procedure that uses image-guided radiofrequency or laser energy to recirculate blood flow to reduce pressure and stress away from abnormal vessels. Once faulty vessels are ablated, healthy vessels are then able to function in their place.

Endovenous ablation treatment boasts a 98% success rate in treating varicose vessels and vessel insufficiency (VI), and does not require general anesthesia or hospital stay.

Treatment results in improved circulation in the legs and helps alleviate common symptoms associated with varicose vessels and vessel insufficiency, such as:

Vein Ablation Conditions

Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive treatment which takes less than eight minutes perform. It is done as an outpatient basis and is used to help treat the conditions that lead to chronic venous insufficiency. Symptoms of these include but are not limited to restless legs, tired heavy legs, cramping, Charley horses, skin discoloration and hair loss, numbness and tingling and many other symptoms. During the procedure an ultrasound is performed and the dilated stretched vein which is the cause of the problem is seen. A catheter is placed into the problem vein under vision with ultrasound guidance. The catheter is then used to heat the inside of the diseased vein allowing it to shrink in size. Once the procedure is complete, the catheter is fully removed and nothing is left in the body. The leg is wrapped with an ace bandage and the patient is explained to walk immediately after the procedure. The following day, the ACE wrap is removed and the patient can resume full activities the following day without restriction. The patient can return to work, go back to the gym, return to physical therapy etc without any issues.

The treatment allows the blood that was trapped in the lower extremities because of the stretched out veins to be diverted to the healthy veins which have functional valves. This allows the blood to now be circulated back to the heart like it used to be and this allows the symptoms to resolve.

The procedure can be done under light sedation or local anesthesia at the preference of the patient. Transportation is provided for the procedure both to and from the facility. The procedure takes less than eight minutes to perform, is minimally invasive, is pain-free, requires no recovery afterwards and is a permanent fix to the problem. The procedure is also fully covered by insurance.

What is Vessel Insufficiency (VI)?

Vessel insufficiency (VI) is a condition where your vessels struggle to return blood from your limbs back to your heart. This causes blood to collect or pool in the vessels of your legs, and can be caused by several factors, including:

  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Any history of smoking
  • Age over 50
  • Age
  • Prolonged standing
  • Family history of varicose vessels
  • Pregnancy
  • Age over 50

Treating Vessel Insufficiency (VI) with Endovenous Radiofrequency Vessel Ablation (RFA)

All RFA treatments treat vessel insufficiency in the legs. However, there are a few specific vessels that require treatment more frequently than others.

One of the most popular targets for endovenous vessel ablation is the great saphenous vessel (GSV), which is located on the inside of the thigh and reaches from the groin all the way down to the ankle. The great saphenous vessels are usually associated with varicose veins, which are a form of vessel insufficiency (VI).

Other popular targets for vessel ablation include the small saphenous vessels (SSV), which lie in the back of the leg near the calf muscles, and accessory vessels, which are located throughout the legs.

Vessel Ablation

How Does Vessel Ablation Work?

Endovenous vessel ablation works by viewing a vessel via ultrasound and then directing microwave radiofrequencies to that vessel through a catheter (a thin tube) that has been inserted into the vessel via a small poke akin to an IV or epidural. Heat generated by the radiofrequency energy allows the blood to be recirculated through healthy vessels. Eventually, the damaged vessel shrinks—thereby eliminating the problem vessel and allowing blood flow to redirect towards healthier vessels.

This radiofrequency ablation procedure takes only 10 minutes to treat 2 vessels and completely eliminates problem vessels using just a relatively simple needle puncture covered by a bandage. When treating multiple vessels, several sessions may be required.

What Can I Expect After Vessel Ablation Treatment?

Compared to the weeks of recovery time associated with more traditional vessel removal procedures, radiofrequency ablation treatment requires no recovery time. You’ll have full mobility the very next day! Patients are able to return home the same day as treatment by walking right out the front door.

Here are a few other things to expect post-treatment:

  • You are encouraged to walk after the procedure, and you won’t have any trouble doing it! You’ll have full mobility mere hours after the procedure.
  • You will be instructed to wear a compression sock for a period of time during your recovery.
  • You may drive a car as soon as one day after your procedure.

Who is A Candidate for Vessel Ablation?

Endovenous ablation is for those with vessel insufficiency or varicose vessels. It is meant to alleviate the following symptoms:

  • Tired, Heavy, or Swollen Legs
  • Restless Legs
  • Leg Cramps or Charley Horses
  • Back Pain
  • Hip or Knee Pain
  • Leg or Calf Pain
  • Foot Pain
  • Sciatica
  • Varicose or Spider Veins
  • Difficulty Walking or Climbing Stairs
  • Pain When Bending Down
  • A Longer Recovery Time After Exercising

Wellness & Pain: Your Destination for Vessel Health

Approximately 150,000 cases of vessel insufficiency are diagnosed each year. Chronic vessel insufficiency is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Early diagnosis is important as vessel insufficiency can result in various conditions such as varicose vessels. Undiagnosed vessel insufficiency can also result in serious consequences.

In addition to reviewing symptoms and conducting a physical examination, Dr. Arad and Dr. Molina of Wellness & Pain can determine if you have vessel insufficiency using a fast and non-invasive diagnostic Wellness Ultrasound.

We can also help keep you free of vessel insufficiency and other vessel problems by providing lifestyle education and home care advice to help you avoid and manage problems, and quickly relieve any vessel conditions using state-of-the-art treatments, including vessel ablation.

It’s important to note that you do not have to see vessels in your legs in order to seek treatment. Vessel insufficiency is commonly based on symptoms and is often misdiagnosed. Our wellness ultrasound can help determine whether you have underlying vessel issues and can help guide your treatment options.

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Swollen Leg Treatment

NY & NJ’s Destination for Swollen Leg Treatment

Common Causes of Swollen Legs

Swollen leg treatment is possible, and it’s easier than you may think. First and foremost, the human body was made to move. Moreover, if it doesn’t move enough, problems develop. Primarily, these problems can hinder the circulation of blood and fluid in your body. Additionally, if you experience tired legs after standing for the entire day or heaviness after sitting, swollen legs could be an indication of circulatory issues.

Your heart works continuously to pump blood down your extremities and back up them. In most cases, if you move, no problem. If you don’t, some sort of swollen leg treatment might be required. The circulation of blood and the fluid in your legs slows down, which leads to the accumulation of fluid throughout the cavities and tissues surrounding those vessels, leading to swollen legs. As a result, your legs can feel achy and fatigued. They may even feel painful and heavy.

Normally, blood circulates through your heart before it travels to the rest of your body. After that, the valves in the vessels of your legs aid in recirculating blood back to it. In reality, it’s quite a distance to travel against gravity.

An elderly woman sitting on her couch and holding her swollen legs after standing all day.

Thankfully, swollen leg treatment prevents those valves from wearing out. In addition, it helps rejuvenate them if you already suffer from swollen legs. If left untreated, waste products and blood that require filtration start to build up within your legs. Then, you may soon be noticing that your legs are swelling and feeling tired, fatigued, and unusually heavy.

Swollen Leg Treatment

At Wellness and Pain, we understand the many causes of swollen legs, and we’re ready to identify and treat yours. As always, it’s essential to know there’s a solution for you, from vein ablation to IV hydration. There’s a medical professional waiting.

We provide all heavy and swollen leg treatments, here!

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Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

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For most, restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sign of other issues. Often, people think you have to see veins actually bulge from your legs to seek help; this simply isn’t true. In reality, restless legs are usually the only sign of vessel disease for most people, which is cause enough to seek the best treatment for restless leg syndrome possible.

What Is Restless Legs Syndrome

At its core, RLS causes people to experience strong urges to move their legs. They kick and jerk without thinking it. Not to mention, it’s usually worse at night and while laying down. So, it can decrease their quality of sleep and wreak havoc on other areas of their lives.

People do not experience pain from restless leg syndrome. However, they do experience great discomfort from it. In the end, constant discomfort can have a large impact on mental health. RLS has multiple symptoms. However, it has a big one: It’s the need to move or fidget the legs.

Many people with restless legs syndrome also report symptoms that are associated with other conditions, like vessel insufficiency and varicose veins. The first, a condition that causes blood to pool in the legs. And the second, where veins are enlarged and twisted. Dr. Arad of Wellness and Pain uses several methods to treat vessel insufficiency and varicose veins. These methods are often the best treatment for restless legs as well.

A woman stirring in bed at the discomfort caused by restless legs syndrome.

Symptoms

As mentioned earlier, people do not experience pain from restless leg syndrome. However, they experience great discomfort from it. Drawn out over a long time, this is just as bad. Often, it’s described as:

  • Aching
  • Creeping / Crawling
  • Pulling
  • Itching
  • Throbbing

In summary, restless legs syndrome is usually worse at night, which can make it difficult or impossible to sleep well. Symptoms can also change on a day-to-day basis with one day being worse than the next.

The Best Treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome

At Wellness and Pain, Dr. Arad uses vessel treatments to help patients with varicose veins or vessel insufficiency who also have restless legs syndrome. These treatments include:

Radiofrequency Ablation uses energy to heat the inside of the vessel walls, virtually removing damaged vessels by causing them to close.

Sclerotherapy uses a foam that causes scarring to close off problem vessels. The foam is injected into these vessels, resulting in blood flowing through healthy ones.

A better quality of life is possible. So is better sleep. It’s easier than you might think too. You have multiple options to take charge of your life, and Wellness and Pain has the expertise. Any amount of discomfort is worth seeking treatment for. After all, restless legs syndrome could be a sign of other issues.

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Leg Cramps & Charley Horses

NY & NJ’s Treatment Destination for Leg Cramps

If you’ve ever experienced leg cramps of any degree, you know just how painful and debilitating they can be. You may have even limped to your computer and quickly typed “Leg cramps doctor, now!” Also known as a “charley horse,” they occur when a muscle in the calf suddenly tightens. This spasm can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. During this time, it’s almost impossible to think of anything but the pain.

Often, leg cramps occur in the calf muscles, but they can occur in the feet and thighs too. In addition, they can strike at night, disrupting sleep and setting you on the wrong foot the next day.

Vessel Insufficiency

Though excruciatingly painful, it’s important to note that leg cramps are not medically harmful. However, regular cramping of the legs is a common symptom of vessel insufficiency (VI).

In healthy circulation, vessels deep within the leg work to circulate blood back to the heart. First, your body removes waste products. Then, “clean” blood replenishes your body and legs with oxygen and nutrients.

In summary, vessel insufficiency (VI) occurs when the vessel in the legs have difficulty pushing blood back to the heart. The vessel walls eventually become weak, and vessel valves are damaged. This damage makes it possible for blood to leak, or flow backward and stay in the vessel.

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Chronic vessel insufficiency (CVI) can cause vessel stasis, a condition where the blood pools in the vessel. Pooled blood that’s carrying waste products is depleted of oxygen and essential nutrients, thus causing leg cramps.

Chronic leg cramping is often a result of the body being unable to clean waste from the blood that has pooled in the legs due to weak or damaged vessels.

Although vessel insufficiency often causes varicose veins and spider veins, many patients with VI don’t experience these physical indicators. In fact, leg cramps are often the only symptom of vessel disease—If there are any symptoms at all. Other symptoms of vessel disease vary by patient and should be evaluated by a physician.

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Treatment Options

Treating the underlying vessel disease, or vessel insufficiency, will stop cramping and aching legs from occurring. You won’t have to search for a “Leg cramps doctor” ever again.

At Wellness & Pain, Dr. Jonathan Arad uses a variety of effective, minimally invasive treatments to close off problematic vessels and address vessel insufficiency. Thankfully, this offers the best relief from leg cramps for good. Treatments include:

  • Vessel ablation
  • Sclerotherapy

Are you suffering from frequent leg pain and cramping? Chronic cramping of the legs caused by vessel insufficiency can be incredibly difficult to live with. Fortunately, there is a cure.

The first step towards permanent relief from painful leg cramps is to receive a simple, non-invasive diagnostic Wellness Ultrasound, during which Dr. Arad will assess your vessel health. Should your Wellness Ultrasound find evidence of vessel insufficiency, you, Dr. Arad, and Dr. Molina will take the necessary steps to restore your vessel health together.

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Varicose & Spider Veins

NY & NJ’s Treatment Destination for the Permanent Fix to Varicose Veins

Red, threadlike lines on your face, legs, or feet may be spider veins, which are like varicose veins, but smaller. Jonathan Arad, MD, Michelle Molina, MD, and the team at Wellness and Pain provide quick, in-office spider vein treatment at their state-of-the-art facilities in Ardsley, New York, Clifton, New Jersey, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and their multiple mobile locations throughout New York and New Jersey. If you experience discomfort from spider veins, call today or request an appointment online.

What are varicose veins?

Varicose veins are bulging, discolored blood vessels that most often occur in your legs, although they can affect other parts of your body. These veins usually appear swollen and blue or purple in color. Spider veins are similar to varicose veins, but smaller.

Some people experience painful varicose veins, while others are more concerned with how they look. If varicose veins trouble you for any reason, the expert team at Wellness and Pain can help. They offer a 10-minute, in-office procedure to eliminate varicose veins.

What are the symptoms of varicose veins?

The primary sign of varicose veins is the presence of one or more veins that appear twisted, enlarged, and dark purple or blue in color.

Other symptoms include leg pain and cramping, a feeling of heaviness in your legs, itching, and skin discoloration.

What causes varicose veins?

Varicose veins are due to damaged or weakened valves in your veins. Because you spend so much time standing and walking, the veins in your legs need to work against gravity to push blood back to your heart.

When the valves in your veins don’t work properly, blood can flow backward. This condition is known as chronic venous insufficiency. If blood pools in your veins, it can cause the bulging, twisted, and discolored appearance of varicose veins.

How are varicose veins diagnosed and treated?

The expert team at Wellness and Pain has successfully treated hundreds of people with varicose veins.

They perform a quick, non-invasive ultrasound to confirm a diagnosis of venous insufficiency. Then, they recommend the best approach to treatment for your particular needs. Varicose vein treatments include:

  • Lifestyle changes like weight loss
  • Wearing compression stockings
  • Endovenous radiofrequency ablation

Radiofrequency ablation shrinks the vein with heat energy and provides permanent relief from varicose veins and their symptoms.

Varicose vein treatments are minimally invasive, painless, are covered by insurance, and take minimal time to recover. Recovery time is about one day, but you may need to wear compression stockings for a period of time.

For expertise in varicose vein treatment, call Wellness and Pain today or request an appointment online.

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What are spider veins?

Spider veins are thin lines or clusters of blood vessels that look like tree branches and are visible beneath the surface of your skin. These veins get their name from the spider webs they resemble in appearance.

Though usually harmless, spider veins can cause symptoms like aching, pain, or a burning sensation. Standing for long periods can cause symptoms to worsen.

If you experience spider vein symptoms or are bothered by their appearance, the team at Wellness and Pain can help. They’ve performed hundreds of quick, in-office spider vein treatments that easily resolve the problem.

How are spider veins different from varicose veins?

Spider veins and varicose veins both result from a problem with the valves inside your veins, known as venous insufficiency. However, there are many differences between the two conditions.

Spider veins are smaller than varicose veins and usually red in color, although they can be blue or purple. Unlike varicose veins, spider veins don’t bulge out of your skin. You can see them because they’re close to your skin’s surface, while varicose veins can be deeper.

Another difference is that varicose veins nearly always occur in your legs, but spider veins often appear on your face, legs, or feet.

How are spider veins diagnosed and treated?

First, the Wellness and Pain team discusses your symptoms and medical history and performs a physical exam. They can diagnose venous insufficiency with a quick, in-office ultrasound exam to check your blood flow.

Then, they recommend the best course of treatment based on your particular symptoms and overall health. Treatment options for spider veins include:

Endovenous radiofrequency ablation

This approach uses radiofrequency energy to heat and destroy veins. Two veins take less than 10 minutes to treat.

Your insurance will cover treatment if spider veins are more than a cosmetic concern. There’s little to no recovery time, and the treatments are done in specialized centers where transportation is provided for you. Patients have the choice of sedation for a short 10-minute procedure or opting for local anesthesia.

To learn how you can get rid of spider veins, call Wellness and Pain today or request an appointment online.

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