Effects of compression on performance and regeneration

The benefits of stockings in sports are discussed under various conditions. The current results are evaluated with different methods like treadmill running, bicycle ergometers, jumping performances or peak power. Furthermore, the compression of stockings varied from elastic clothes with unknown compression to less elastic stockings, but mainly compression class I or II are used. Different manufacturers of compression garments (different compression values, production tolerances, fitting problems) are the reason that there is no comparability between the different research results. Currently, no study shows a decrease of performance caused by compression garments. For example, in a maximum treadmill running test or in a 40 km cycling time trail, increased performance could be