Jobst manufactures socks and other compression garments for people with different needs. This article focuses on the various types of products and indicates the appropriate product for users with specific needs.

Who needs Compression Wear?
A discussion about how compression treatment works will help the users understand how to choose the product that they need. Compression arm sleeves or stockings apply pressure on the veins or tissues of the limbs to improve blood circulation. The pressure ensures that the blood does not accumulate in the veins. It also forces more blood to flow through the capillaries that go deep into the tissues of the arm or the leg. Patients need socks and stockings that apply more pressure at specific points to cure or prevent blood clots, or to neutralize the effect of malfunctioning veins.

Compression wear for ordinary users
Compression leg wear applies more pressure at the ankle than the calves and ensures that blood returns to the heart instead of collecting in the veins of the leg. People who have to spend long hours sitting or standing often complain of aching and swollen legs because of blood accumulation in their legs. Low gradient compression wear is meant for them.

Compression wear for patients
When valves in the veins of the leg do not function properly, blood tends to flow towards the legs because of gravity. Medical wear with higher gradient pressure reverses this. Bad blood circulation leads to venous ulcers. These ulcers make the patient's skin around the ankles flaky, dark and susceptible to injuries. These wounds take very long to heal. Often these symptoms are accompanied by chronic swelling of the legs. Such patients need compression wear.

Patients with deep vein thrombosis need to wear compression stockings as the blood supply to the deeper veins of their legs have to be improved to remove the clot. This thrombosis is a result of spending too much time in low humidity environments. Since people who travel in planes where humidity is not properly controlled tend to have this disease, this condition is often referred as 'economy class syndrome'. Studies have revealed that regular use of compression wear prevents post thrombotic syndrome. Thus physicians ask their patients to use compression wear even after they recover from deep vein thrombosis.

Conrad Jobst who designed these stockings, was himself a patient of venous diseases. Today, Jobst products are recommended by a number of doctors.

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