Laser + anesthesia = goodbye varicose veins!

Just as you thought the little veins inside your legs that cause a great deal of pain cannot be treated, then you’re wrong.

Before, doctors only used lasers to treat the large visible veins on your legs called varicose veins. They never used it on smaller sized veins because they fear that the laser was too strong for the little veins to handle (the veins might burn, and rupture in the process). A new study shows that with the use of local anesthesia, targeting these small veins is now possible. The job of anesthesia is to wrap the vein, and make it less vulnerable to the powerful laser.

Photo taken from http://www.msurgical.com