Is surgery or minimally invasive better for varicose vein treatment?

Varicose veins are usually caused by abnormal elongation, expansion and tortuosity of veins due to prolonged standing and sitting. Depending on the severity of the disease, it is decided whether to go for traditional surgery or minimally invasive treatment, and there are advantages and disadvantages of each of the two options. 1. Traditional Surgery: The advantage is that it can be cured and not easy to recur, the disadvantage of traditional surgery is that it is very traumatic and unsightly. However, there are improved surgical methods of stripping, through the inner ankle, thigh root or knee to implement a very small, close to 1cm incision, and then stripping the thigh of blood vessels. 2. Minimally invasive surgery, mainly laser, radiofrequency, sclerotherapy, these programs do not need to take out the blood vessels, do not need to peel off the blood vessels, but only through the physical or chemical methods, the blood vessels in the body to be blocked off, the advantages of its less traumatic, faster recovery, the disadvantage is that the recurrence rate will be higher. The specific choice of which method should be determined after a specific examination.