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By Tiffany White  Post Sponsored by Clark Memorial Hospital Vein Center  Alicia Smith says she had no reservations about trying the treatment and has been pleased with the results. Photo by Melissa Donald Alicia Smith, 35, enjoys wearing dresses, skirts, and shorts, but when spider veins appeared on both of her legs in 2012 after she had a baby, she tried to hide them. “They started burning and itching, and I didn’t like how they looked. I wore stockings for a while, but that didn’t seem to help at all,” she says. Alicia tried sclerotherapy [...]

By Tiffany White Post Sponsored by Clark Memorial Hospital Vein Center Marla Beeler, MSN, FNP, APRN Photos by Melissa DonaldConcealing your spider veins may be a pain, but permanently removing them is simple and painless. Marla Beeler, MSN, FNP, APRN with the Clark Physician Group Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Center, utilizes a vein removal treatment called sclerotherapy on her clients. Using a small gauge needle, Beeler injects asclera, a sclerosing agent, into the spider veins, which scars the vein better than saline. “The vein doesn’t have the reaction to saline, because saline is like saltwater. It is less [...]