Strategy to the Practical Acceptability of Elastic Bandages and Stockings

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Compression therapy such as elastic bandages and elastic stockings is an essential treatment tool for venous diseases and lymphedema of the limbs. However, it has some disadvantages. One of the main disadvantages of elastic bandages is difficulty in achieving a constant and precise compression pressure, while that of elastic stockings is difficulty in putting them on and taking them off, resulting in important limitation of the practical acceptability. In the present study, therefore, some solutions to reduce these difficulties were described; multilayer bandaging, bandages with a mark which indicated a compression pressure and education in techniques to put the elastic stockings on for the disadvantages of elastic bandages, and double stockings, separated stockings which were divided at the ankle region into leg and foot portions and the use of gaiters to augment the calf muscle pump for the disadvantages of elastic stockings.