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  2. Compression stockings - Wikipedia

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    The analysis determined that there was a 6% risk of developing deep vein thrombosis when wearing knee-high stockings and 4% when wearing thigh-high stockings, but also found significant heterogeneity, and thus it concluded that there is not enough evidence that one length is superior to the other, and suggests that knee-high compression ...

  3. Intermittent pneumatic compression - Wikipedia

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    IPK with inflatable trousers. Intermittent pneumatic compression is a therapeutic technique used in medical devices that include an air pump and inflatable auxiliary sleeves, gloves or boots in a system designed to improve venous circulation in the limbs of patients who have edema or the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), or the combination of DVT and PE, venous ...

  4. Deep vein thrombosis - Wikipedia

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    Incidence is about 18% higher in males than in females, [4] though there are ages when VTE is more prevalent in women. [15] VTE occurs in association with hospitalization or nursing home residence about 60% of the time, active cancer about 20% of the time, and a central venous catheter or transvenous pacemaker about 9% of the time. [3]

  5. Compression garment - Wikipedia

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    A bellyband, wrap, or abdominal binder is a compression garment which resembles a tubetop but worn over the abdomen of expectant mothers. [2] Bellybands are also commonly worn post-childbirth to help provide abdominal and back support thereby making it easier to perform day to day tasks, and to help mothers with their posture.

  6. Apple is making it easier to unlock your phone when wearing a ...

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    Apple's next iOS update should make it a lot easier to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask. There's just one caveat. Apple is making it easier to unlock your phone when wearing a mask [Video]

  7. Hyperbaric medicine - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbaric medicine includes hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which is the medical use of oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure to increase the availability of oxygen in the body; [8] and therapeutic recompression, which involves increasing the ambient pressure on a person, usually a diver, to treat decompression sickness or an air embolism by reducing the volume and more rapidly eliminating ...

  8. Stocking - Wikipedia

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    Before the 1920s, stockings, if worn, were worn for warmth. In the 1920s, as hemlines of dresses rose and central heating was not widespread, women began to wear flesh-colored stockings to cover their exposed legs. Those stockings were sheer, first made of silk or rayon (then known as "artificial silk") and after 1940 of nylon.

  9. At 54, Jennifer Aniston Poses in Just Lingerie and Oversized ...

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    In her latest feature, The Morning Show star, 54, poses in lingerie and an oversized blazer in a recent behind-the-scenes Instagram video. The star shared the clip from a photoshoot for CR Fashion ...