Vein Treatment Varicose Veins Laser Lipo & Vein Care Center Ask the Doctor

If the EVLT procedure doesn’t alleviate problems in the lower leg do/can you laser the lower leg?

Yes you can laser in the lower leg, but you have to be much more careful. There is a nerve that supplies sensation to the skin, called the saphenous nerve, that runs along the vein in the lower leg.

Heat can damage the nerve and you can get temporary numbness or permanent numbness from this. Sometimes this is avoidable if enough tumescent is used, however sometimes regardless of how good your technique is the nerve can still be damaged.

- Dr. Wright

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