Therapies-Treatments
Conservative Therapy
This involves the use of some combination of compression stockings, weight loss, moderate exercise and leg elevation. Often conservative therapy will not yield an acceptable clinical result and further treatment is required. Most insurance companies want a doctor to document that these measures have been attemped and failed before allowing other treatments.
This involves the use of some combination of compression stockings, weight loss, moderate exercise and leg elevation. Often conservative therapy will not yield an acceptable clinical result and further treatment is required. Most insurance companies want a doctor to document that these measures have been attemped and failed before allowing other treatments.
The next step if conservative therapy fails will likely involve one, two or
possibly all three of the following treatments either on the same visit or
subsequent visits: