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What’s New from Dr. Lee

Online yoga and exercise tips for those suffering with circulation issues

Dr. Lee joined and yoga instructor Krystal Say appeared on Mass Live to share how they are helping patients at home with simple yoga and exercise videos.

By |May 21st, 2020|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

Everything You Need to Know about Sclerotherapy for Spider Vein Treatment

In this article, Sclerotherapy: Everything You Need to Know about this Treatment For Making Spider Veins Disappear, on Spotlyte, our physician assistant, Ryan MacDonald, PA-C, discusses the importance of choosing a provider with extensive experience in sclerotherapy if you are considering this treatment for varicose veins.

By |May 29th, 2019|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

Discovering Your Risk for Potentially Deadly Blood Clots

March is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month and a good opportunity to review your risk factors for developing potentially deadly blood clots known as deep vein thrombosis or DVT.

By |March 5th, 2019|Categories: What's New, What’s New from Dr. Lee|

March is DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) Awareness Month

March is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month, also known as Blood Clot Awareness Month. Dr. K. Francis Lee, medical director at Advanced Vein Care Center, one of the premier treatment centers in New England for venous diseases, discussed the importance of deep vein blood clots, noting that increased awareness is needed for the public.

By |February 28th, 2018|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

Choosing the vein care center that’s right for you

Whether you are simply seeking treatment for unsightly spider veins, or have more serious conditions like venous insufficiency, varicose veins, blood clots in your legs or venous stasis ulcers, it’s important to ask the right questions when deciding where to go for treatment.

By |September 25th, 2017|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

The Nightmare of Leg Cramps—Chronic Pain Awareness Month

Have you ever woken at night to the debilitating, piercing pain of a leg cramp? If so, you are not alone. It’s been shown that 33.6% of the general public experience night-time muscle cramps, and as high as 50% among those with chronic venous insufficiency.

By |October 7th, 2015|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

IAC Accreditation – What We Are

Feedback comes in many forms—from the mother’s lips to a child, or from a restaurant reviewer’s keyboard to a chef—but there is one thing that remains constant. Everyone needs feedback. The more paperwork-intensive, the more people avoid it. But no matter how uncomfortable receiving feedback may be, the complete lack of it is also unnerving—we succumb to easy complacency, or worse, we doubt our work and worry: “How are we doing?”

By |September 17th, 2015|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

Lovely Westfield Woman’s Club

It’s been such a long, dreary, cold winter. In western Massachusetts, April can be especially more sad and bleak when the Nor’easter persists across our towns and dumps snow and icy rain with spite. So it was with great pleasure and anticipation one sunny afternoon last week that I drove to Westfield to give a talk on vein conditions and treatments. A very lovely woman named Mary Ellen Anderson from the Westfield Woman’s Club had invited me to address their members at their monthly lunch meeting.

By |April 29th, 2014|Categories: What’s New from Dr. Lee|

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