We have two main types of blood vessels: arteries and veins. Arteries carry fresh, oxygen-rich blood from your heart down to your legs. Once your muscles and tissues use up that oxygen, it’s the veins that carry the used blood back up to your heart to get fresh again. But here’s the thing: veins don’t have their own power to push blood back up against gravity. They really depend on those muscle pumps.
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Basically, every time you move the muscles in your legs, they squeeze gently. This helps push blood upwards in your veins, working against gravity. The problem is, as we get older or move around less, these muscle pumps can get weaker. This makes it harder for blood to move around well, and that’s what leads to that heavy, swollen feeling in your legs. Anatomy
