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Compression therapy has precise technical characteristics but in vivo pressures
exerted by bandages are still poorly understood.
OBJECTIVE: To perform in vivo
pressure measurements of different compression bandages bearing different
technical characteristics with different application methods. METHOD: Interface
pressure was measured on the lower limb of 20 healthy women at 3 different points
(B1, C and F) using 6 compression techniques (stockings, non-elastic bandage,
elastic bandages with 2 technical characteristics and 3 application methods), and
in 3 positions. RESULTS: All elastic compression bandages respected the principle
of graduated pressure along the length of the limb (P<0.0001), but not the
non-elastic bandage. The pressures increase significantly (P<0.0001) between the
supine position and the sitting or standing position, especially with the
non-elastic compression bandage. There is a marked variation in pressures between
subjects for some bandages (non-elastic and elastic applied using the
figure-of-eight technique). The pressure increases significantly with the number
of bandage overlaps (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: Elastic and non-elastic bandages behave
differently from one another, and non-elastic bandages not appearing to comply
with medical recommendations concerning graduated pressure. There is a high level
of variability between subjects for some compression bandages (non-elastic and
figure-of-eight methods).
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