{"id":488771,"date":"2023-09-20T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skinsdev.two1.co\/uk\/?page_id=488771"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:01:06","slug":"what-is-compression","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.skinscompression.com\/uk\/what-is-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS COMPRESSION?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>WHAT IS COMPRESSION?<\/h2>\n\t<p><strong>The use of medical compression has been around for almost 100 years. However, in 1987, a study in the American Journal Of Physical Medicine by doctors Michael J Berry and Robert G McMurray concluded that compression in a sporting context had a positive result. Back in the 90s, it was the inventor of SKINS who was the first to think about bringing compression, in a sporting context, to the market, and the rest is history.\u2028<\/strong><br><strong><br>By 2002 SKINS had introduced the first-ever Compression Sportswear to the market. 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