Relieve Your Chronic Leg Pain with Minimally Invasive Vein Ablation!
With locations in Fair Lawn, Bloomfield, Freehold, East Brunswick, and Matawan, Alliance Orthopedics helps patients recover so that they can get back to doing the things they love. Our approach to healthcare is different. We structure our treatment plans with patients rather than for them, so they can achieve their health and lifestyle goals.
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Our Team
A team of specialists to help you get better!
John Cho, MD
Pain Management Specialist
John Cho, MD, is the medical director of Alliance Orthopedics, serving patients in Matawan, New Jersey. As a board-certified physician with subspecialty certification in pain management, he is proud to provide a wide range of interventional pain management services.
Ammar Saymeh, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgeon
Foot and ankle surgeon Ammar Saymeh, DPM, is the Director of Lower Extremity Services at Alliance Orthopedics. He sees patients of all ages, ranging from pediatrics to the elderly population at the practice’s locations in Matawan, East Brunswick, Freehold, and Morganville, New Jersey.
About Venous Insufficiency
Identify symptoms of Venous Insufficiency and how Alliance Orthopedics can help you return to a pain-free lifestyle.
Symptoms of Venous Insufficiency
- Leg pain
- Back, hip, knee and foot pain
- Varicose veins and spider veins
- Swelling, cramping and pressure
- Lower leg hair loss
- Skin and color changes
What causes blood flow circulation issues?
Healthy veins in your legs keep blood flowing back to the heart. When the valves stop working properly, blood can flow backwards towards your feet, a condition called reflux. This causes blood to pool in the veins of your lower leg. Although reflux can lead to varicose veins and spider veins, other symptoms such as leg pain, heaviness, cramps, and restless legs can also occur. When left untreated, these and other symptoms can progress into a more serious condition called chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).
How do we diagnose Chronic Venous Insufficiency?
From the convenience of any Alliance Orthopedics location, a 10 minute ultrasound can map the superficial veins of your legs. Combined with a thorough medical history and examination, our doctors are able to determine if you have chronic venous insufficiency, and develop a treatment plan to address your symptoms.
The good news about your condition is Alliance Orthopedics can help.
With the proper treatment, the progressive symptoms associated with CVI can be addressed in a few ways. Patients often experience some symptom relief with Normatec Recovery Therapy, and/or compression stockings, but a Vein Ablation procedure addresses your blood flow issues from inside your body. The team at Alliance Orthopedics can help you explore your options.
A minimally invasive and Long Term option: Vein Ablation
A Vein Ablation uses heat to close the diseased vein, which redirects blood flow to healthy veins relieving symptoms. This procedure does not need to be performed at a hospital, and can be performed under local or general anesthesia.
Read more about Vein Ablation Procedures below!
Vein Ablation Procedures at Alliance Orthopedics
Understand how Vein Ablation can combat Venous Insufficiency and restore your active lifestyle.
Were you diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI)?
Explore your next steps!
With the proper treatment, the progressive symptoms associated with CVI can be addressed in a few ways. When non-invasive treatments such as compression stockings and Normatec therapy have failed, it may be time to consider a Vein Ablation.
Understanding The Procedure
The Vein Ablation procedure uses heat to close the diseased vein, which redirects blood flow to healthy veins relieving symptoms. This procedure does not need to be performed at a hospital, and can be performed under local or general anesthesia.
- General anesthesia or a numbing agent is administered, making this a virtually painless procedure.
- Using ultrasound guidance, your doctor positions the catheter into the diseased vein.
- The small catheter delivers heat to the vein wall, causing it to shrink and seal closed.
- Once the diseased vein is closed, blood will reroute itself to other healthy veins.
- Following the procedure, a bandage is placed over the insertion site. Additional compression may be provided to aid healing.
Benefits
- Minimally invasive outpatient procedure
- Long-term treatment option
- Covered by insurance
- Procedure takes less than 20 minutes
- General anesthesia is optional
- Walk out of the procedure
- Back to full activity the following day
Common Myths
Myth: I am too young for blood flow circulation issues.
Fact: Chronic venous insufficiency often starts in our 20s and 30s and progresses over time.
Myth: If I don’t see varicose veins there isn’t a problem.
Fact: Diseased veins do not have to be seen on the skin surface and are oftentimes visualized on ultrasound.
Myth: Vein conditions only affect females.
Fact: Venous insufficiency is found in both female and male patients.
Myth: I need to go to a radiology center or hospital to find out if I have chronic venous insufficiency.
Fact: Most imaging centers only look for blood clots. At Alliance Orthopedics, our ultrasound technique looks for blood clots AND evidence of CVI.
Myth: Vein conditions are only a cosmetic issue
Fact: CVI can lead to cosmetic issues, but may also present as leg pain, fatigue and cramping without any cosmetic signs.