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Do compression socks boost exercise performance and recovery? Here’s the science

The socks are tighter around the ankles and lower calves to exert a gentle pressure. Lots of athletes wear compression socks.
Medscape

Inelastic Compression Legging Produces Gradient Compression and Significantly Higher Skin Surface Pressures Compared with an Elastic Compression Stocking

The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate compression levels beneath an inelastic legging equipped with a new pressure-adjustment system, (2) compare the inelastic compression levels with ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

Columbia's Army Ants youth robotics team wins international award for smart compression stocking

Several awards were announced, with polite applause in response from those gathered in a classroom of the University of Missouri Agriculture Engineering Building. Then, a louder cheer went up when ...
Medscape

Inelastic Compression Legging Produces Gradient Compression and Significantly Higher Skin Surface Pressures Compared with an Elastic Compression Stocking

Thirty subjects (14 females, 16 males; ages 55–77 years) received elastic (Sigvaris 500, 30–40 mm Hg range, Sigvaris, Inc., Peachtree City, GA) and inelastic (CircAid C3 with Built-in-Pressure System ...