This is the correct method but a 20-30mmHg compression sock is a real test of determination, perseverance, fortitude, bravery and sheer stubbornness. And, of course, the size of sock vs. size of foot & leg can make life easier or harder. Do this every day and you won't need an expensive gym membership.

I’ve struggled for months to put socks on my husband, but this is a life changer. Even though my husband wears toeless zippered ones, it was still so always. I’m amazed by this video and thank you profusely.

I've been trying for 4 days to get on compression socks. I've watched so many videos on KZfaq. Nothing seemed to help. I watched your video 2 times this morning. I now have the compression socks on. They are not easy to get on no matter what. But thanks to you I have them on. Thank you so much!

I am a caregiver to the elderly and I always struggle pulling them up over the heel, but this method makes so much sense! I will try this tomorrow with my client!!

Thank you for posting this. I have arthritis in my thumbs and back. It was so painful when the sock would bunch up around my leg. The video is 2:18 long and that's about how long it takes me to put on my compression socks now. I had to pause the video several times until before I could do it on my own. I am sharing it with all of the local pharmacies, in-home health care staff and friends.

Thank you for this video! It was so helpful for me and my dad!

Thanks very much for this. Have had to start wearing them after developing a blood clot from wearing a boot for a ruptured achilles tendon but because of the injury I wanted an easy way to put them on to save aggravating it, and this is it 🙂

This is the best video I've seen on how to put on compression socks, thanks for this video ❤

thank your sooooo much for this demonstration. You have saved me money on a sock aid

I struggle so much to put on my compression socks especially since I have arthritis in my hands this was literally magic lol. Still a little bit tough but way easier than what I was doing before!

I just use Playtex gloves,the bumps under the fingers,helps grip them and they go right on! 😊

so awesome and I would never have thought of doing it this way. THANK YOU!

I was ordered by my doctor to wear compression socks. I tried to put one on and it took 20 minutes! Thanks to this video, it only takes me three now!

Thanks to god that i searched this after struggling to put mine for the first time , and thanks to you that i didnt damage 7 pairs that i just bought thanks 🙏🏼 .

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. So much easier to put on my new compression OTC socks. Will also use this method when putting on my other OTC socks which are a tight fit. Thank You 😊

Wish I saw this video years ago. I used rubber gloves etc, etc, etc to get these on .😩. I got these on with no problem with this video! A thousand times thank you!🤗🤗🤗🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Thank you so much I tried this way for putting on socks on my mother.

You made it so quick and easy. Thanks

This is the best demo I've seen on youtube! Thank you!

What a brilliant demonstration this is!!! Clear, short and to the point. Thank you. Please will you do another similar video showing the easiest and quickest way to remove the stocking. Thank you.

It's also quite helpful to put lotion on the leg just prior to the stocking. Helps the stocking slide on.

Thank you so much. Tried for days then found this. Got them on thanks 👍🏻

Thank you SO VERY MUCH for this!

Thank you! Works great.

Wow! This is amazing.

I can’t thank you enough for this video. I’ve had so much trouble putting them on and my husband who has arthritis in his fingers, goes through pain to help me. This is brilliant!

Thank you...very helpful!

Your video did help me get my compression socks on easier. Thank you.

Thank you. Really makes it easier.

Thank you

Lifesaver! Thank you!

Muchas gracias!

Thanks for a great how-to video. Carry On.

Thanks - New to this game and this helped a bunch. It works! Really The people at the medical supply store were not helpful. Thanks again for this video.

Thanks!

Thanx...I needed this!

Thank you sooo much! I'm gonna try this. I have to spend 10 minutes putting on each sock.

Thanks for sharing.

Do you have any tips for putting them on when not able to bend? (Spinal injury and about to have major abdo surgery where not allowed to bend for 4-6 weeks).

Thank you sooooo much Ma’am, you’re Awesome 💯👍🏻

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Thanks!!

Omg thank you!!! This saved me I have to put this on for my brother who had open heart surgery it was a struggle , great job👏👏

This is a great method. Only thing you forgot was medical exam gloves or latex dishwashing gloves, which help tremendously when smoothing the stocking/preventing snags on broken nails (inevitably they will break)

After watching this video from Oswald's Pharmacy, I can now put on my stockings in a few minutes quite effortlessly. I do it in two steps, as shown in the video: first, I pull up the stocking to the heel; then, I pull it up to the knee. This is where I still have a problem. After I make sure there is the space of two fingers below the knee, I adjust the stocking all the way down to the calves. I end up with quite a bit of loose fabric right there - over the calves. So, I gently pull up the stocking - and I end up with the stocking ON the knee. This is a "no-no", for it hinders good circulation. Could you ask your "Stocking Specialist" what I can do to solve this problem?

Wow. This just saved me a ton of strength.

Thank you for the video. I find it is much easier. However right foot has severe binyon & hands have some osteoarthritis. Any tips for this additional challenge? Perhaps rubber gloves mentioned above? What kind of rubber goves?

thats pretty clever...I just tried it..Damn that was much easier..TY, looks much quicker than that zolu thing or whatever its called

Thank you SO MUCH! I've been struggling for YEARS putting these things on. My socks don't have toes & go up to my knees. I went to a medical supply store with a Rx from my doctor for compression socks. They measured my leg & gave me size MS of 20-30 mmHg (I don't know what that means). I told them they were way too tight & were cutting off my circulation just below the knee, leaving a deep impression there as if I'd had a tight rubber band on it all day. They said "well, we measured you." That's it. I'm not sure how they should feel but I thought the idea was to improve circulation not cut it off. I've tried pulling the sock up over my knee but as soon as I move it rolls down back under my knee. The people at the medical supply store are quite unfriendly & of no help. Can someone please tell me if the way these fit & feel - too tight at the top with a strange 'burning but cold' feeling throughout the lower leg - is the way it's supposed to be? Or should I just get some bigger generic compression socks from Walmart or Walgreens? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Thanx a lot for the video. Got 23 to 33 only yesterday. Today first time managed to wear it myself. If u can please do a video on how to take it off

Those are instructions for knee high. What about full leg length socks? Any way to get those on without a Medi Butler?

This video is the best I've seen for putting on compression stockings. I'm a man in my late 70s. Like most of the people in the comments below, I find it quite time-consuming in the morning to put on my compression stockings. The problem I have is adjusting the top of the stockings about TWO FINGERS below the knees. After I do this, the stockings end up RATHER LOOSE at the ANKLES, where compression is needed MOST. So, I pull up the stocking to make sure that the area around the ankles is smooth and tight. And I end up with the stockings RIGHT UP UNDER the knees - with not enough space for the two fingers. Can you suggest what I can do?

This is the best way ive seen to put these on

Thanks very much, you've saved my mum much discomfort. Cheers.

This was so easy,. How come nobody ever teaches patients how to put on their compression stockings correctly? Thanks so much.

Is love to see a demo of someone putting a compression sock on someone with an actual need for the socks. Her legs are not swollen. There's plenty of room to stretch the sock. This is not the case for my mom. It's a 15 minutes struggle with the two of us.

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!

Can we sleep in the night while keeping the compression socks on?

I was sold the wrong size sock is why they hurt and I had a hard time putting them on. I went to another pharmacy and the lady there fitted me with the tight compression socks and they feel so good. Just wondering though, how long it takes for the measurements of the legs to change?

I can get it on. The problem is getting it off . It takes 3 hands to remove .Do you have a video for removing it?

Are they supposed to be under or over your knees? Thank you!

What happens if you can't tip your foot?

I can't get them past my toes!!! They just aren't wide enough. The hospital measured my ankle and calf and leg length but didn't consider that my feet are deformed and much wider than my ankle so the ankle part is too narrow to go over my foot.

What if you can’t reach your foot?

Mine are thigh high, open toes. I need to figure out how to do this on my own after my legs have been operated on for venous reflux. They will have injections, cuts and lots of bruises. I have tried to get them on with normal legs and I finally got one on but it took twice the effort to remove them. Mine are 30/40 and hurt so bad around my foot, ankle, knee and upper thigh. I almost had a panic attack and got the scissors to cut them off. I ran my thumb nail in my leg and it started bleeding on the sock. I am on blood thinner. 911.

So it's like putting on stockings, got it!

Your leg should be elevated when putting on these kind of hose! It's easier in the morning because your legs aren't as swollen as they will be during the day!

for me, getting them over the heal is the easy part, its getting them over the toes thats the hardest, but once you,ve got them over the toe area, (which is obv,ly the widest part of anyone,s foot,) the rest of it(inc the heal) is the easy part, i,ve'made a device out of a piece of plastic house guttering that i can easyley put the sock over the rounded shaped edge. (That i shaped the piece of guttering with a pair of tin snips then sanded to make smooth) i put my foot in then pull the plastic gutter contraption out & they are on, over the toe,s, the rest( inc the heal) is easy

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all well and good for someone who can bend over or put their leg up - persons with limited ROM esp bending over would never be able to do this

Stockings are a lot harder than socks in my opinion. Plus have to be careful not to get runs in them etc

stocking needs to be two finger WIDTHS below the knee. I think one writer was trying to put it two finger lengths below. No wonder it bunched up further down. I dread getting my knee length socks put on every morning by staff who haven’t a clue how to do it. It is Sooo painful!

This will save me about 2 minutes per sock x 2 socks per day x 365 days per year = 24.3 hours per year. So over the next 50 years, you just saved me 51 days of my life minus the 2 minutes of this video. Thanks!

The doesn't work with 20-30 compression socks.

I would love to have a stool just like this one.

cant get the heel to line up, no help

These socks make me mad. It's my first time ever having to wear them, they bunch at the knee and hurt. This video makes it look easy but it sure isn't. Darn, I even scratched my leg trying to put them on. 😱

Should compression socks be so tight that the might cut off cirrulation

What about people that cannot bend down?

Thanks for the hint I'll give it a try . ---- PS You've got pretty legs !!!

20-30 compression socks are way to heavy to use this method.

It is so.much easier with rubber gloves, why you dont use rubber gloves?

This is only for a 20 year old, not me.

All of these videos are not working. We get friction burn on our fingers just trying to get them over the ball of the toes and the heel. We have to Force it over the toes and heel so hard it hurts and then do the pinch and pull method all the way up. Now we have a $50 pair of socks with runs in them on day 2. 🤬

so many demonstrations on here are useless, the models' legs too slim for the compression so the stockings flow on easily!...this is more realistic, clear and sensible

Your socks look an awful lot thinner than mine. 🇨🇦

Not so easy stockings are much tighter than ones in film. Not easy for a 92 year old with no help

Definitely you’ve never had a hip replacement

Some of The people (seniors) who will be buying these socks will never be able to get them on per ANY video on KZfaq! Socks are great idea but not practical to get on .. Who has purchased these without thinking there’s special directions to put a pair of socks on????

Have a 400 pound person do it. Good luck

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Thanks!