Tahunanui Pharmacy offers a professional fitting service for graduated Medical Compression and Travel Compression that are designed to improve comfort, support circulation, and help you feel your best every day.

Our highly trained team will take accurate measurements and help you choose the right compression level, style and skin-friendly fabric choice for your needs. We can provide solutions for donning and doffing (getting compression on and off).

• Support stockings or support tights are not the same as medical compression stockings. Support stockings have no medical benefit and are available to anyone to buy. They are only suitable for people with healthy veins.

Reasons to wear graduated compression:

🤰 Pregnancy - prevention of Spider Veins, Varicose Veins and relief from existing Varicose Veins. Women can experience more issues with their veins during pregnancy. Possible causes are change in hormonal balance, increase in blood volume and weight gain.

✈️ Travel - Heading away on a long flight or car trip? Travel compression stockings can help maintain healthy circulation and reduce swelling or the risk of clots while you’re on the move. We’ll help you find the ideal travel stockings for comfort and peace of mind on your journey. Even people with a healthy venous system can suffer from travel thrombosis. Sitting for long periods in cramped conditions when travelling can result in heavy legs and swollen ankles. Your blood circulation slows down. The dry air and low air pressure in aeroplanes put additional strain on your body, resulting in swollen and tired legs.

😌 Relief and Prevention for existing and future DVTs or superficial clots

🗃 Work - Ease discomfort from varicose veins or tired, heavy legs from long periods of standing or sitting and little physical exercise

⚕️Medical Condition Management - medical conditions that need higher-grade compression:

➢ Venous Leg Ulcers
➢ Venous Oedema
➢ Post-surgery Recovery
➢ Chronic Venous Insufficiency
➢ Awaiting an appointment with the Vascular Team at Nelson Hospital

Appointments are recommended for Medical Grade compression— please give us a call to book your fitting time. Compression stockings are specialised, measured and custom-sized. We will need to order these specifically for you to ensure a perfect fit.

For travel compression for most people we can offer a same day service.