As a podiatrist, coach and athlete, who works extremely closely with patients and athletes from all walks of life, I can highly recommend recovery systems. For the better part of the last 15 years, I have avoided recommending my patients buy pneumatic compression machines purely because of the costs associated with them. Traditionally, machines have started at an entry price of 3k or more and the options limited and degree of compression quite low. Instead, we have had patients present to the clinic for treatment which is costly, timely and unsustainable. Now that recovery systems has come on to the market, I frequently and only recommend recovery systems. Not only is it affordable, but recovery systems comes with a range of attachments for both the upper limbs, body and lower limbs and it can feed 2 compression garments simultaneously. This makes it ideal for my athletes. In our athletes, we use pneumatic compression therapy to improve their venous circulation in their upper or lower limbs after a training session or competition to help reduce inflammatory mediators and the accumulation of static metabolic waste build up. We use it in our clinics on patients with chronic venous ulcerations, post surgery to improve the rehabilitation process, to treat oedema, DVT, Pulmonary Embolism, post lymphadenectomy and for ongoing care for lymphoedema. Lymphoedema makes up the majority of the cases we treat as it exposes the affected area to an ongoing inflammatory process that, if untreated, can progress to skin fibrosis, adipose tissue accumulation, and further accumulation of fluid, causing disfiguring swelling, disability, and infections such as cellulitis. Numerous studies show that early treatment in the initial stages, can prevent and avoid the permanent swelling due to adipose tissue accumulation, as well as fibrotic skin changes and cellulitis. Mathew Herd – MyfootdrRead more Show less -
