Chronic venous disease (CVD) is typically described in fragments. Reflux. Valve failure. Venous hypertension. Edema. Skin change. Ulceration. The language is anatomical and episodic, as though pathology emerges at a definable moment—a valve gives way, a vein dilates, a lesion appears. Yet the clinical reality is slower and more continuous. Patients describe years of heaviness, […]