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What happens when you have poor circulation?
When you have poor circulation, your blood cannot sufficiently reach certain parts of your body. Poor circulation will prevent parts of your body from getting the nutrients and oxygen they need and from removing wastes - this prevents them functioning properly. As you have around 100,000 km of blood vessels in your circulatory system, symptoms may occur in different parts of the body.
Poor blood circulation often occurs in the lower parts of your body such as the legs and feet as these are the furthest reaches of your circulatory system. When you are standing or sitting, your leg muscles and blood vessels in the veins need to work hard to pump the blood back to your heart. While some symptoms of poor circulation may be mild, it’s important to take them seriously as circulation problems may be a sign of a number of conditions that may require treatment from a doctor.
Inactivity, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, living with diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are risk factors for poor circulation also medically known as peripheral arterial disease. Consult your doctor if you have any of these conditions.
What are the Signs of Poor Leg Circulation?
You may have poor leg circulation if you experience:
The feeling of discomfort and aching in your calves and feet can be a sign of poor circulation.
Blood pooling due to poor circulation in the lower legs causes puffiness and swelling in the lower legs.
Also often felt as tingling and numbness in the feet, pins and needles in the feet is a common symptoms of poor circulation.
This is leg pain that happens when you walk. It may be caused by poor leg circulation due to narrowed arteries.
Check your skin and nails regularly - dry skin, brittle nails or hair loss on the legs and feet could signal poor circulation.
What Causes Poor Leg Circulation?
Leg circulation may deteriorate as you grow older or if you do not maintain an active lifestyle. Sitting or standing for too long can cause poor leg circulation because your leg muscles are not activated and may lose their function over time.
Several factors can increase your risk of poor leg circulation:
especially when you reach 50 years old or older
We recommend for you to talk to your doctor if you have symptoms of poor leg circulation combined with any of the risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or smoking.
Certain medical conditions can also cause poor leg circulation
These medical conditions are to be diagnosed by a medical professional.
Peripheral artery disease (PAD)1
PAD occurs when your arteries (blood vessels that bring blood to your limbs) are narrowed, making it difficult for blood to reach certain parts of your body. Factors that can increase your risk for PAD include high cholesterol, obesity and high blood pressure.
Varicose Veins2
The veins in your legs carry blood that contains waste products back to your heart. These veins have one-way valves to keep blood from flowing backward. When you have Varicose Veins, the valves in your leg veins don’t work properly, causing blood to pool in the veins.
Diabetes and diabetic neuropathy3,4
When you have diabetes, the high level of glucose in your blood can narrow and harden your blood vessels over time. This will lead to poor blood circulation which causes pain and cold feeling on your legs.
Leg Circulation Explained
Your legs act as a "second heart"
Returning blood to the heart from lower parts of the body, such as the feet and legs, is hard work for your circulation because the blood has to be pushed ‘uphill’. To do this, the circulation needs help from muscles that surround the veins. When we walk, muscles in the feet and legs help to pump blood upwards. The more the muscles work the greater the squeezing action and the easier it is to push blood back to the heart. In effect, muscles in areas such as the feet and legs work as your "second heart".
Blood is very important because it carries and delivers many things that the body needs to stay well.
Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from your heart to the legs, arms and other parts of the body allowing your muscles to work.
Veins carry the used blood back to your heart. Returning blood to the heart from the feet and legs is very difficult as blood has to be pushed ‘uphill’ back to the heart.
Can Revitive help?
Revitive Circulation Booster may help relieve symptoms of poor circulation such as leg aches and pains. When combined with certain underlying medical conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, leg symptoms may be an indicator of poor circulation associated with peripheral arterial disease.
Revitive Circulation Booster stimulates leg muscles and is clinically proven to improve circulation during use.
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References:
- Peripheral Artery Disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Accessed July 31, 2020. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/peripheral-artery-disease
- Varicose Veins. Mayo Clinic website. Accessed June 24, 2021. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/varicose-veins/symptoms-causes/syc-20350643
- What to Know About Poor Circulation. MedicalNewsToday website. Updated January 17, 2020. Accessed July 31, 2020. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322371#takeaway
- Foot Care. Diabetes Australia website. Accessed June 16, 2021. https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/living-with-diabetes/preventing-complications/foot-care/
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