Compression Stockings 101

Ladies, are you about to join the millions of women who have experienced pregnancy? For many, this is a wonderful time, a period when you feel the most feminine, the most excited, and filled with joyful expectation you glow with good health and vitality...and then there’s your feet.

Compression stockings? You need to wear compression stockings? You? But you’re fashionable and stylish, you like to look your best, how on earth are you supposed to make a pair of thick, unflattering compression stockings look good? Easily, in fact!

Find out more about our fantastic range of compression socks with this handy infographic. Whether you are looking for socks that will prevent discomfort and potentially threatening conditions while on a plane or socks for sport, Compression Stockings.co.uk has got you covered. Compression socks combine discretion with efficacy to ensure that your legs receive the support that they need.

Gradient compression stockings are so effective because they’ve been made with the knowledge that the level of compression your calf or thigh needs isn’t the same as what you ankle probably requires. Your leg isn’t the same from top to toe, so neither should your stockings be!

As we keep telling you to get yourself some compression stockings, we thought we’d do the responsible thing and make sure you also know how to get into them, so here’s Part 1 of our guide for how to put on compression stockings!

Aiding the medical treatment of vein conditions is what compression stockings do best! Sufferers of varicose veins will know this better than most and have probably enjoyed the relief and even correction that can come with a good pair of compression stockings. If you’ve decided to take the plunge and go under the knife for varicose vein surgery, though, compression stockings can still help you out by helping you have a happy and healthy recovery.

Edema, Oedema, Dropsy, Hydropsy, people may have different ways of naming it, but they can all agree that this condition that causes excess fluid to gather just beneath the skin  is not at all pleasant.

Squashed seats, no leg room, crowded like cattle, flying economy is even scarier now Economy Class Syndrome exists.

Nurses around the world work incredibly hard to give the best patient care possible. Part of the incredible work nurses do involves being on their feet for a long time, which can take its toll on legs. Here at Compression Stockings we want to help nurses be at their best so that you can continue to deliver great levels of care to patients.