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By this elastic dressing, the vein lumen is constricted and blood flow to heart is accelerated. By rule, less venous stasis and edema of legs is noticed.
Significant disadvantage of compression therapy is wearing of elastic stockings in the summer, because there is overheating of legs. Putting on the stockings is difficult for elderly patients because it necessitates definite power to overcome the elastic resistance of the material. There are also dressings without elastic component, which are easier for placing, but the achieved effect is not the optimum one.
Based on these disadvantages, the compression therapy is used as extra or transient method in the treatment of varices or in definite indications.
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