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This Season's Compression Garments

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By Dr. Sue Hodson, Mercy Lymphoedema Clinic, Mercy Hospital For Women, Victoria, Australia

One day soon, I expect compression garments to be different. We all dream of garments which are effective, but which are easy to don, invisible to everyone else and comfortable. A change for garment wearers, like when spectacle wearers were given the option of wearing contact lenses.

How could this be possible? I don't know. Does anyone reading about these hopes know of an appropriate material, or know someone who can develop the right material?

I envisage something like the wrap on bread in the supermarket that breathes but keeps the bread fresh, so the skin stays healthy, and so the garment isn't too hot. I imagine a cheap, disposable material which shrinks to fit the limb when it is activated by a device (also relatively cheap), which makes the wrap shrink to an appropriate fit at a predictable pressure on the limb - a more sophisticated procedure than using hair-dryers to shrink wrap on suitcases at the airports - but surely not impossible to achieve. And at the end of the day the garment can be safely removed.

It is a dream that would make garments less visible to others, also possibly cheaper, and I hope would make the difficulties of getting garments on and off a problem of the past.

Can anyone help fulfil this dream?

You can reach Dr. Hodson through her e-mail address at: SHodson@mercy.com.au


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