Summer Olympic Games in Beijing
Fly High in Compression Stockings, 05/14/2008
Ariane Hingst wears them. Naturally, Simone Laudehr and Sonja Fuss wear them, too. Since traveling to Shanghai for the 2007 World Cup, the women in the German national soccer team don’t let anything come between them and their compression stockings. And Sabrina Mockenhaupt, Germany’s best female long-distance runner, even wears hers when she’s competing. The men may be a little more reluctant to admit it, but the fact is that all the German Olympic athletes will be wearing Bauerfeind’s medical compression stockings on the long flight to China. And for good reason.
Long trips, especially plane trips, are hard on the legs. One in ten passengers on a long-distance flight will develop a thrombosis, according to recent information from eurocom e.V. (the European manufacturers association for compression therapy and orthopedic aids). Of the 400 passengers on a jumbo jet, 40 will deplane with a blood clot in a leg vein, although generally they don’t know it. This won’t necessarily result in a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, but it still should be taken seriously. This is why people who take long trips should wear medical compression stockings as a preventative and precautionary measure—like the German Olympic athletes. Medical compression stockings help the veins pump blood back in the direction of the heart by gently compressing the blood vessels at a very specific pressure.
High-tech materials make the stockings very comfortable to wear and prevent heat or moisture from collecting under the knitted material. After a flight, your legs feel lighter and hurt less, and athletes can start training again faster.
But for medical compression stockings to work properly they have to fit perfectly. At medical speciality retailers, experts will measure your legs—Bauerfeind’s Image 3D measuring system even makes it possible to do this completely touch-free. Digital images of your legs are created and are viewable in the form of a 3D model on a PC. The system takes precise readings and calculates the size of the required product based on these data. The stocking specialist will then advise you about the use and effect of the compression stockings, and will help you choose them.
Oh, by the way, modern compression stockings have little in common with your grandmother’s support hose. They are almost indistinguishable from conventional opaque stockings and they come in trendy colors. The current collection from Bauerfeind, the official supplier to the German Olympic teams, has compression stockings that come in grape-red and sand-gold, for example, as well as classical black.
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Zeulenroda-Triebes, 30 april, 2008
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