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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY with Dr John Barletta
VARICOSE VEINS with Dr Nicholas Kemp
Refresh and refocus
What is a clot?
Focusing regularly on getting outer order ensures inner calm. The change of season is an excellent time to reflect upon how you’re travelling and adjust behaviours and plans for the next month. Do this by tidying your home and garden, the office, car, or tick off things on your to-do list, and compare how much your life resembles your vision board! In light of how healthy and happy you are (and what is important to you), revisit your big picture. This means considering your strengths, identifying passions, developing inspiring plans, and accessing mentors. Everyone has goals to have a great relationship, a rewarding job, and a good life. But only some have systems to increase the likelihood of these materialising. Goals are for dreamers – systems are for winners.
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you may have noticed much discussion surrounding clots, but what exactly are they? A blood clot is a mass formed by platelets held together by fibrin, a protein that acts like glue. If you have varicose veins, this means the superficial venous system is not functioning as it should. In severe cases, the deep system can also be incompetent. If muscles squeeze a clot out of a vein in the leg, there is a chance it can travel elsewhere within the body and can lead to serious complications such as deep vein thrombosis, heart attacks or a stroke. To reduce your risk of these, avoid sitting or lying for long periods without walking, know your family health history, stop smoking, lower high blood pressure and maintain a healthy weight. Consider consulting a phlebologist for treatment of your varicose veins. THE LEG VEIN DOCTOR 465 MILTON RD, AUCHENFLOWER P 3720 9912 THELEGVEINDOCTOR.COM
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