1. Service plan
2. Customer service
3. Tips for links
4. Glossary
5. Compression Therapy
   • Basic Treatment
   • Anatomy/Physiology
   • Effect
   • Essential Points
   • Fitting
   • Care
   • Pressure Distribution
   • Measuring
   • Indications & Corresponding Compression Classes
6. Information brochures

Fitting Compression Hosiery

Recommended fitting of compression hosiery

• The first fitting of the product may be carried out only by trained medical staff.
• It is best to put your stockings on in the morning directly after getting up.
• Do not grasp into the mesh with sharp fingernails. Ensure that you take off any jewellery beforehand.
• Please avoid over-stretching the stockings and do not pull the product up by the silicone border.
• Your legs and hands should be dry.
• Please observe: stockings are put on and not pulled on!
• Protect your Venotrain® compression stockings from contact with oils, creams and ointments.
• For putting on and taking off we recommend that you wear rubber gloves. This permits even distribution of the material over the leg.
• Avoid damage to the knitted fabric (e.g. by the wrong type of footwear) and do not cut off any thread ends and labels as knots resulting from production can br undone in this way.
• In the event of improper application and arbitrarily carried out changes to the product liability shall be excluded.
• With stockings with silicone border skin irritations can occur in the case of hypersensitivity.
• Disposal of the compression stockings is possible through the municipal waste system.
• Use fitting aids provided by the companies

Only appropriate fitted compression hosiery is able to fulfil the total effect !!!

The tissue of compression hosiery should have an equal drop in pressure from distal to proximal to achieve optimal haemodynamics and prevent pressure marks and laces.

The patient compliance will determine the therapy success, which depends on features like wearing comfort, aesthetic aspects ... and a perfect fit, which can only be guaranteed when in advance exact measurements are taken.

Though no two legs are alike, it is important that every leg receives optimal treatment, whatever its size or shape is.

Specific Sizing systems that allow to fit most of patients into
Confection
Standard
Ready-to-wear
Compression stockings are mandatory. ( ca. 80% of the market)

Otherwise there are indications & situations where a patient needs
Tailor-made
custom
made-to-measure
Compression stockings. (ca. 20% of the market)

Tips for putting stockings on

1. Turn the stocking inside out as far as the heel. Strectch the foot opening with both hands and slip the foot part over the foot as far as the instep, until the heel part fits well.
2. The rest of the stocking is turned over bit by bit upwards over the instep and the heel as fas as the ankle.
3. Now grip the knitted fabric carefully on the outside and stroke it in sections upwards until it lies evenly against the leg.
4. With a pair of tights you proceed in the same way with the other leg. Smooth out any wrinkles possibly present in order to ensure a correct fitting shape and hence optimum medical effectiveness.
5. In the case of compression tights grip with the flat of your hand into the abdomen part.
6. Distribute the material with the two backs of your hands evenly upwards in a semi-circle.

Putting on your Venotrain® compression stockings is made easier by the Venotrain® Glider.