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Health care professionals try to ease leg pain
Free clinic focuses on little-known condition
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Ginny Perez checks Gainesville resident Harry Martin’s venous refill time Friday at Medical Park Pharmacy. The photoplethysmograph — “we call it a PPG,” Perez said — uses reflected infrared light to determine how quickly the leg veins refill with blood after a patient flexes their foot. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Circulation isn’t just a matter of the heart. “Leg circulation is important mostly for people’s comfort,” said Dr. Michael Lebow, an experienced vascular surgeon. Robert Holcombe hasn’t felt comfortable standing in more than a decade.