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Do you have pain in your foot and wonder what is causing it or how to treat it? To help identify the cause of your foot pain, answer these five questions: Did the pain come on gradually without a suspected injury? Does the pain sensation tingle, burn, cramp or feel numb? Do you feel the pain at the end of your foot and into your toes? Does it feel like your walking on a wrinkle in your sock or on a small pebble? Do the symptoms occur after you’ve been walking or standing for a period of time? If you answered YES to any of these questions you may have irritated a nerve in your foot and could be suffering from what’s called a neuroma.

Compression socks are designed to facilitate circulation in veins. Daily training of sportsmen leads to exertion and may harm the optimal performance. Regardless of the type of sport you indulge in or pursue at professional or amateur level, your legs experience fatigue, pain and muscle cramps. Though the sports that focus specifically on the legs would benefit more from the usage of compression socks, every sportsperson, who uses legs only as part of the routine, would benefit from it. The advantages are as follows:

Circulation:
This is the primary area of advantage. Compression socks improve circulation in feet, ankles and calves. The compression created by these socks promotes the blood flow through the narrower veins in the feet. Due to this, the blood flows through all the parts of your legs and also stabilizes your legs by efficient performance of your feet, ankle and calves. More importantly, the use of compression socks allows more amount of blood flow to the heart. Under normal circumstances the blood that could have clotted, or settled in the legs returns to heart for superior blood and oxygen flow through out the body.