{"id":3048,"date":"2008-09-17T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:19:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-19T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:03:29","slug":"sigvaris-compre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/sigvaris-compre\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigvaris Compression Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feet swell during long bouts of confined sitting. If you&#8217;ve ever taken your shoes off during an overseas flight, you&#8217;ve likely noticed they no longer fit when you put them back on for landing. To remedy this, I found my first pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compression_stockings\">compression socks<\/a> in a medical supply store. The owner, an old Russian gentlemen, said &#8220;It&#8217;s like strong cup of coffee,&#8221; which is kind of true. They really do work wonders for your feet and circulation, especially for long periods of sitting. But being made of heavy-duty nylon, they were not particularly comfortable. It was always a pleasure taking them off after long flights.<\/p>\n<p>Sigvaris cotton support socks are rated as 15-20 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MmHg#mmHg\">mmHg<\/a>, the same level of compression as my older pair (higher levels require a prescription). However, this pair is soft and comfy. I travel overseas monthly, maybe more. Putting these on still requires some wrangling, but after a recent 12-hour flight preceded by a one-hour shuttle, upon arriving home there is no burning desire to remove them (though when I do, my legs thank me!). They come in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s sizes, in various colors, and are half the price of my original medical compression stockings. Though the instructions say delicate machine wash is OK, I&#8217;ve been hand-washing my pair to prolong their utility.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-swelling stockings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}