Your Experience With Compression Clothing During and After Workouts.

Your use of the word prescription is very different to mine. That is to say, I was assuming you quite literally got a electronic or hard copy prescription for a non-OTC product. I'm also used to people needing compression stockings for lymphedema. In their case the pressure they need is greater than stockings for varicose veins.

Again, what is normal and were you reading journal articles that essentially said, "this worked/didn't work for this population so we're going to generalize those results to all populations"?

For what it's worth I have, in the span of five minutes, found at two studies that don't appear to be using professional athletes. Though having said that, I have access to a number of institutional journal subscriptions through my university's library. The two that I found were, Effects of compression stockings during exercise and recovery on blood lactate kinetics (D. Rimaud et. al. 2010) and Graduated compression stockings: Physiological and perceptual responses during and after exercise (A. Ali et. al. 2006). Unfortunately both studies only consisted of men but it's very clear in the 2010 article that the participants were not professional athletes as they trained on average less than 5.5 hours per week. The other article didn't say how many hours the people in the study trained, but classed them as "recreational runners" who competed in other sports that required running such as soccer. That said, at least in the 2010 study they were - well, "normal". "None of the subjects had cardiovascular, pulmonary, or metabolic diseases, venous insufficiency, peripheral vascular disease or took medications." That could be too normal for what you're looking for.


If you are hell bent on proving some egotistical fact, go ahead. Prescription still means the same thing. I got a writted prescription from the doctor. However, he suggested the stockings and said they were an option and not a necessity and if I wanted to go with them, he would prescribe them. I said I did and he prescribed them.

Also, like I mentioned before, there are different levels of compression. The compression stockings for varicose veins depend on the severity of the problem. People with varicose veins who have ulcers wear a higher level of compression than the people with lymphoedema. Varicose vein compression stockings have very light, light and medium compression which are exaclty the same as the levels of compression provided by athletic gear.Splitting hairs on nonsensical things doesn't prove your point.

Yeah, Training less than 5.5 hours doesn't mean much. Recreational runners still doesn't mean much. I have clearly specified that I have not found any studies that have considered a population with more than 5% body fat or studies in Normal people at different body fat levels (eg 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30% and above 30%) and on women. Please read the post before going off in a tangent. Ultimately, despite all your jibber jabber you have still not added anything of value to the conversation.