Aiding muscle recovery through compression

ANT KATZ

Sigvaris Sports makes Swiss precision compression gear. They are backed by more than 150 years of medical expertise and joined  in as a late, but popular, sponsor in SA Jewish Report’s “Personalised Family Fitness Package” competition.

Sigvaris SA imports top-of-the-line functional hi-tech athletic gear. Sigvaris Sports compression products incorporate 150 years of medical expertise. At almost R1 000 a pair, readers can imagine how excited one of the listeners to JR’s Friday morning 101.9 ChaiFM broadcasts was to have won a pair.

As will one of the readers who attend the competition’s PRIZE-GIVING EVENT on Wednesday evening.

As the world market leader in medical compression stockings, Sigvaris has now moved to use this wealth of experience to develop products for the field of sports. The company uses sophisticated construction methods and ultra-modern, hi-tech fibres which are perfectly adapted to meet the needs of the athlete.

For the first time, a compression product offers sports-specific functions and at the same time guarantees perfectly calibrated pressure on the leg “because if you don’t buy your product by ankle size you aren’t buying the right product for you,” says the company.

During sport, Sigvaris sports compression stockings and sleeves use controlled degressive pressure, from the ankle up to above the calf, to speed up blood circulation and improve the supply of blood pumped to the muscles. In this way metabolic substances (such as lactates) are removed more rapidly and the muscle fibres are supplied with more oxygen. The precise sizing system takes into account all possible combinations of calf, leg and shoe size, so that every athlete is perfectly catered for, they explain.

The technique is indispensable for the lower leg is all the more important for the thigh, the largest muscle of the loco motor system.

Their compression shorts fit perfectly into the compression system, adding to the controlled pressure from the lower leg and maximise energy in the whole leg.

sigvaris@babcockhealth.co.za – 011 238-9522 – https://www.facebook.com/sigvarissportssa