Abella Heart Blog
Nocturnal Leg Cramps
Also called night leg cramps, nocturnal leg cramps are involuntary contractions of your leg muscles occurring when you’re in bed. It is generally the calf muscles that cramp, though your feet or thighs may cramp as well. Stretching the cramped muscle is the way to...
Avoiding Amputations
There are more than 130,000 amputations per year in the United States, and many of those are performed on patients with arterial disease. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), also called peripheral vascular disease, is the blockage of arteries going to an extremity or...
May-Thurner Syndrome
Leg pain and swelling can be caused by a number of problems, many of them venous in nature. One serious condition with these symptoms is May-Thurner syndrome. Caused by the compression of an important vein against the spine, May-Thurner syndrome is the narrowing of...
Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), blood clots that happen in deep veins, often in the thighs and lower legs, is a relatively common venous condition that is not life-threatening. However, if treatment doesn’t occur, DVT can lead to a serious condition called post-thrombotic...
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Deep vein thrombosis refers to a blood clot in the large veins in the leg or pelvis. The three most common reasons for DVT are inflammation or damage of a vein’s inner lining, blood that clots quickly, and slow blood flow. Critical veins run through the pelvis into...
Venous Insufficiency Ulcers
Venous insufficiency has a variety of symptoms, one of the worst being venous ulcers. Venous ulcers have several names, including stasis, insufficiency, or varicose ulcers. What do venous ulcers look like? There are a few different stages of venous insufficiency...