Can wearing slimming socks help slim your legs? Let’s restore the truth

Many women have heard that wearing slimming socks can help slim the legs, especially women who work in offices. They are prone to varicose veins in the limbs due to frequent sitting. There are socks on the Internet that can prevent varicose veins in the limbs and are said to have the effect of slimming the legs. In fact, there is no scientific basis for this.

2. In fact, the so-called popular slimming socks for preventing and treating varicose veins are professionally called medical graduated decompression elastic stockings, which are mainly used to prevent and treat varicose veins of the lower limbs, lower limb venous thrombosis, and lower limb lymphadenopathy. The pressure of medical graduated decompression stockings on the legs is generated by the deformation of the elastic material. The loop length of the elastic material is designed according to different leg sizes and required pressure values. Its function is to promote the return of venous blood to the heart, help the return of venous blood in the lower limbs through the decreasing changes in pressure, and effectively relieve or improve the pressure on the lower limb veins and venous valves.

3. Medical prevention and treatment of varicose veins socks can be divided into health-care type and therapeutic type. The health care type has less pressure and is suitable for professionals who work while standing and for people who are at high risk of varicose veins and thrombosis. The treatment types are further classified according to the pressure size: level one low-pressure preventive type, which is suitable for health care prevention of people with high risk of varicose veins and thrombosis; level one medium-pressure treatment type, which is suitable for patients in the early stages of varicose veins; level two high-pressure treatment type, which is suitable for patients with obvious varicose veins in the lower limbs and accompanied by leg discomfort, phlebitis, severe varicose veins during pregnancy, patients after varicose vein stripping, and patients with post-deep vein thrombosis syndrome; level three high-pressure treatment type, which is suitable for patients with severe swelling of the lower limbs, ulcers, darkening and hardening of the skin, irreversible lymphedema, etc.

4. Wearing so-called "slimming socks" to slim down your legs is not advisable . Although wearing socks will make you look thinner visually, your true appearance will be revealed once you take them off. Wearing slimming socks for 24 hours is not only unnecessary but may also be harmful. Medical graduated decompression elastic stockings are very tight and feel oppressive when worn. They are uncomfortable to wear while sleeping, especially because excessive pressure may affect normal blood circulation in the legs.