Combat varicose veins with Herzog PRO Compression Socks

A brief explanation of blood flow

Before we discuss the vascular problems, we first need to know a little more about blood flow. As you may know, the heart pumps the blood with energy-rich substances, sugars, and oxygen through increasingly smaller blood vessels and into the smallest capillaries. These sugars and oxygen are then transported to the muscle cells by the residual pressure of the heart. Those vessels from the heart to the capillaries are called arteries.

The blood with the waste products of the combustion process, lactic acid and carbon dioxide, is reabsorbed into the blood vessels that return the blood to the heart. We call this the venous or venous system. The arterial blood goes easily to the legs, because the pressure of the heart is still very high and gravity also helps.

When varicose veins develop

However, this can only work if there are some kind of 'sluices' that ensure that the blood can only flow in one direction, namely towards the heart. These locks are the so-called valves in the blood vessel. This allows the blood to only flow in the direction of the heart and not back. The video above shows the operation of the calf muscle pump schematically. These valves only function when they can close completely.

But those valves only function when they can close completely. If the vessel wall is not so strong, offers too little resistance and is dilated, the valves can no longer close completely. The result is that the blood with waste products shuttles back and forth. There is then no longer a proper flow of the venous blood back to the heart. Varicose veins can then develop: these dilated veins often look like blue and winding veins.

Sports Compression Socks offer a solution

Compression socks are essential to prevent varicose veins from getting worse. Compression socks provide external pressure on the muscle tissue, providing external support to the vessels and allowing the valves to fully open and close again.

I will not discuss surgical procedures or laser techniques here.  As described above, the PRO Herzog socks are extremely suitable for use as a support sock, as they are support socks but specifically developed for athletes. So they are more durable, breathe better and also look fashionable. With the wearing comfort of Herzog compression socks, you certainly don't have to feel like a patient if you have vascular problems.