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Venous Insufficiency of the Legs
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Also known as: venous insufficiency · venous weakness · chronic venous insufficiency · CVI · weak veins · venous disease · swollen legs · water in the legs · congestion legs · vein problems
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Your legs feel heavy. By evening the ankles are swollen, the skin is taut, sometimes it itches, sometimes it turns brownish. The blood that should be flowing back to the heart is backing up in the veins of your legs — the valves that are supposed to prevent backflow are no longer working properly. Medically this is called venous insufficiency. The circulation stalls. What ought to flow upward gets stuck at the bottom.
But why does it stall? And why precisely in the legs — the parts of the body that carry you forward, that let you walk your path, that bear you?
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