Lifestyle Awareness: Understanding Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
The most common cause for a blood clot is prolonged periods of immobilization. Usually, when we move, the calf and thigh muscles squeeze the veins to help return impure blood back to the heart and lungs. If you sit in a cramped place, without room to move your legs for a long time, blood movement becomes sluggish. Even dehydration can thicken the blood and cause clotting. This particular condition is called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Today, Dr M...Read More
The most common cause for a blood clot is prolonged periods of immobilization. Usually, when we move, the calf and thigh muscles squeeze the veins to help return impure blood back to the heart and lungs. If you sit in a cramped place, without room to move your legs for a long time, blood movement becomes sluggish. Even dehydration can thicken the blood and cause clotting. This particular condition is called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Today, Dr M S Sandhu, Head, Cardiology at Artemis Health Institute, helps us understand DVT in detail. *Images courtesy: ? Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
An essayist and journalist by profession, Mansi is a Mass Communications major with a focus on health and fitness writing. With 2 years of journalism experience under her belt, Mansi loves obsessing over topics like body image, nutrition, mental health, and stress reduction, along with art, multiculturalism, fashion and gossip writing. Overall, she is a twenty something whose fitness philosophy boils down to: Do the healthy thing more often than you don't do the healthy thing. Persistence matters, not perfection.
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