Prevarication is a terrible thing. It’s 11.00am and I’ve been sitting at my desk trying to write this piece for two hours. Even though I know what I want to say, I always struggle to start. I’ve completed a number of other (less important) tasks on my ‘to-do list’ as well as some that weren’t on the list but offered a distraction from the blank page in front of me.
Compression therapy — and compression hosiery in particular — are well-documented therapies for people with lower limb disorders. However, choosing the correct product for patients can be difficult. Here, Rebecca Elwell, Macmillan lymphoedema clinical nurse specialist, Royal Stoke University Hospital, examines the growth of technology in the choice of compression products and asks whether digital selection can contribute to best practice.
