What is a blood clot? Blood clots normally form after an injury to protect your body from losing too much blood, but they can ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs when a blood clot forms in a deep vein in the body, often found in the legs. The blood clots that form can break loose, traveling to other parts of your body such as ...

Swollen ankles post-exercise can happen due to a variety of reasons, including temporary inflammation, hormones, injuries, ...

That familiar heaviness in your legs after a long day isn’t just tiredness – it might be telling you something important about your circulation. While many people rush to expensive treatments or worry ...

Leg pain affects nearly everyone at some point, ranging from routine muscle soreness after exercise to the occasional cramp that resolves quickly. This commonplace nature makes it easy to dismiss leg ...

John Houghton receives funding from the George Davies Charitable Trust and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. He is the trainee representative for the Vascular Surgery Specialist ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As with other knee injuries, how you rehab from a torn ACL is critical to the overall success of the surgery to fix it. Hundreds of thousands of ACL repair surgeries are done ...

A leg bypass surgery may be necessary if fatty deposits have clogged a blood vessel, impeding blood flow through the leg. During this surgery, doctors will create a new pathway for blood to travel. If ...