Abstract
6/2020
vol. 37
Review paper
Compression therapy in venous diseases: physical assumptions and clinical effects
- Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine, Specialist Hospital No. 2, Bytom, Poland
- Fresenius Dialysis Centre No. 38 in Oswiecim, Fresenius Nephrocare Polska, Oswiecim, Poland
- Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Bytom, Poland
- Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Medical Physics, Chelkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Adv Dermatol Allergol 2020; XXXVII (6): 842–847
Online publish date: 2019/07/26
Compression therapy (CT) is an established treatment method in chronic venous disease. Despite years of clinical experience, choosing the optimum compression therapy, including grade and pressure distribution, which determine the efficacy of treatment poses a challenge. The paper discusses CT physical assumptions (stiffness, elasticity, static and dynamic stiffness indices), clinical effects and contraindications to CT.
Keywords
compression therapy, chronic venous disease, interface pressure, stiffness
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