Gradient Compression for Healthy Legs

What is Graduated, or Gradient Compression?
Healthy Legs

Our support socks and stockings are designed to apply maximum pressure on the leg by starting at the ankle. Pressure gradually lessens up the leg. This action helps accelerate the movement of blood back up through the veins and to the heart, thus assisting circulation.

How do compression stockings work?
Medically accurate compression stockings push the dilated vein walls back into place, enabling the veins to close properly and helping them "pump" the blood throughout your body more efficiently. As a result, blood flow is increased, which reduces swelling, fatigue, pain and the possible formation of blood clots in the leg.

Why is graduated compression so important?
The most important component in treating vein disease is to reduce the swelling. The greatest swelling is usually in the ankles, because of gravity. Since that is where the veins become weakest, that is where the pressure from a graduated compression stocking is strongest.

How Do These Compare to Department Store Socks and Stockings?

All of our products exert a minimum pressure of 8mmHg or more at the ankle, gradually decreasing up the leg. Be careful of department store products that do not list a specific pressure. Even though they are labeled "support" or "gradient or graduated support", they do not produce an effective amount of compression.