Customised pressure profiles of made-to-measure sports compression garments

Abstract The purpose of this study was to make made-to-measure compression garments that elicit pressures within and below clinical standards. also examined whether gradients can be replicated between participants’ legs, separate garment conditions. Ten males volunteered participate. Based on three-dimensional scans the lower body, three different were manufactured: control, symmetrical asymmetrical. Garment assessed from malleolus gluteal fold using a pressure monitoring device. A root mean squared difference analysis used calculate in vivo linear graduation parameters. Linear regression showed peak at ankle left right leg were: control garment, 13.5 ± 2.3 12.9 2.6; asymmetrical 12.7 2.5 26.3 3.4; 27.7 2.2 27.5 1.6 (all mmHg, standard deviation). Pressure reduction 8.9 3.5 7.4 3.0; asymmetrical, 7.8 3.9 21.9 3.2; symmetrical, 25.0 4.1 22.3 3.6 Made-to-measure made standards, equivalent participants.