Wound Clinic
If a wound on your lower leg has lingered for weeks, months, or even years, it’s time to look beneath the surface.
Many patients come to NorCal Vein Specialists after months or even years of weekly wound care visits with little progress. At our wound clinic in the East Bay and Sacramento, Dr. M. Albert Malvehy takes a different approach. Instead of treating only the skin, he treats the circulation problem that’s keeping the wound from closing.
Most Lower Leg Wounds Start With the Veins
Wounds between the calf and the ankle are almost always venous ulcers.
In fact, more than 80% of lower leg and ankle wounds are caused primarily by vein disease. This is true even if you don’t have visible varicose veins.
Many patients with venous ulcers have never noticed a bulging vein, because the damaged veins causing the problem sit deeper beneath the skin.
These wounds develop from venous insufficiency, a condition where weakened valves in the leg veins allow blood to pool near the ankles. That constant pressure causes inflammation, discoloration, and eventually a breakdown of the skin. The wound appears on the surface, but the problem isn’t at the level of the skin. It’s at the level of the circulation.
Why Dressings and Debridement Don’t Work
Traditional wound care treats the skin. Debridement, dressings, creams, and wraps don’t work for venous ulcers because they don’t address the underlying problem. As long as blood keeps pooling in the leg, the wound can’t heal for good. Going to a wound clinic multiple times a week for months to get dressing changes is a waste of time if the circulation issue isn’t treated. Our wound clinic is built around fixing that issue first.
How Our Wound Clinic Works
Ultrasound to find the root cause. Dr. Malvehy personally performs an ultrasound at your first visit. As a Registered Vascular Technologist and board-certified vein specialist, he maps your leg veins to pinpoint exactly where circulation is failing.
Targeted vein treatment. Based on your ultrasound, Dr. Malvehy creates a customized treatment plan that may combine laser vein treatment and ultrasound-guided foam ablation to close the damaged veins. Blood then reroutes through healthy veins and the pressure on your skin is relieved.
The skin heals on its own. Once the underlying circulation problem is treated, the wound can heal naturally, even if it has been open for years.
Why Patients Choose Our Wound Clinic
- In-office treatment: All procedures are performed in our comfortable, modern offices using local anesthesia. No operating rooms or hospital stays.
- No downtime: Patients drive themselves home and return to normal activity.
- One doctor, start to finish: Every consultation, ultrasound, and treatment is performed directly by Dr. Malvehy.
- Experience you can trust: Dr. Malvehy has performed more than 10,000 vein treatments, including care for patients whose prior treatments failed.
Stop Wounds From Coming Back
“If the underlying circulation problem isn’t treated, venous leg wounds are very likely to come back, even after they close. Even with dressings and compression, it will reopen because nothing has changed beneath the surface.
Treating the underlying vein disease is the only way to heal the wound and keep it from coming back.
Wound treatment at NorCal Vein Specialists is covered by insurance and Medicare. Affordable self-pay options are also available for patients without insurance.
Schedule Your Wound Clinic Consultation
Stop spending months on dressing changes that don’t fix the problem.
Contact NorCal Vein Specialists in the East Bay or Sacramento to schedule your leg vein consultation today.
