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COMPRESSION GARMENTS
CHARACTERISTICS
CODOPRESS® compression garments provide:
·
well fitted
compression on the scar
·
ability to be used
with other types of therapy
·
stop to skin allergy
or irritation
·
reduction of itching
·
protection against
joint contracture
THERAPY
Depending on the size and place of scars, a compression therapy can
take from 6 months to 2 years. The end of the therapy is in each case
determined by the appropriate doctor. Patients who use CODOPRESS® on regular
basis can observe implicit effects of this therapy: their scars flatten,
soften and turn pale in colour. The therapy improves the patients’ mobility
which helps them avoid joint contracture.
A complete therapy usually demands changing the old CODOPRESS®
compression garments for the new ones, depending on their tear and wear as
well as the change in patients’ sizes (especially in children).
All types of CODOPRESS® compression garments are custom made. In
order to purchase one of them a patient is requested to contact the company
by phone.
HOW TO USE CODOPRESS®
Patients wear their compression garments 24 hours a day, with breaks
for a bath and massage.
Children under 1,5 years are advised
to be dressed in compression garments in 3 to 4 hour time
periods with 1 to 2 hour breaks. This
is due to possible bad changes in their bone system.
The patients should become accustomed
to wearing their compression garments thus starting using them for 30
minutes at the beginning of their therapy. At first, there may appear some
swelling on the peripheral parts of body safe from compression, which
usually disappears after a couple of days.
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