Particularly for lower body blood clotting and venous circulatory issues, Wakefield says compression garments are helpful either in place of or in addition to blood thinning drugs and other forms of treatment. Thomas Wakefield, a professor of vascular surgery with the University of Michigan Health System.
And when it comes to medical conditions that involve swelling or poor blood flow, compression is still a “mainstay” of treatment and recovery, says Dr. Iverson’s doctor improvised the arm compression as an aid for the player’s inflamed elbow-not to boost Iverson’s performance. Which takes us back to Allen Iverson and his sleeve.
A recent study from Indiana University looked into lower-leg compression among distance runners and failed to find meaningful gains. But he says there’s “little evidence” that endurance athletes perform better while wearing compression tights and tops. Hamlin mentions one 1996 study that found trained volleyball players were able to increase their average-but not maximum-leaping height when wearing compression shorts. Other researchers have found similar benefits among weightlifters who slipped into compression body suits, but only when those suits were worn continuously for more than a day following exercise.
And while his research observed recovery improvements among rugby players who wore compression leggings, those improvements only came from donning the leggings for 24 hours straight following exercise. Hamlin has studied the effect of compression garments on short-term recovery.
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