Rehabilitation Service - Your guide to a Pressure Garment

Important information about your pressure garment 

• If you are wearing the garment all the time (day and night) it is important that you remove it at least twice a day to check and clean your skin
• When washing your limb (hand, finger), ensure you wash and dry it thoroughly and massage the skin with a thick cream e.g. E45 or Nivea

A new garment should be worn each day. Wash the garment in warm soapy water and allow to air dry.
 
Your garment should be worn with the seams on the outside, see photograph. For digisleeves the seams should go on the top of your finger.

Your garment is cut on an angle to fit well into the web spaces between your fingers, see photograph

Follow-up/future care

If in the future there are any problems with your garment such as:

• Redness
• Swelling
• Numbness
• Discomfort
• The tips of your fingers change colour and become blue
• Increased pain
• Garment is poorly fitting

Then take off the garment and contact:

The Occupational Therapy Department, Salford Royal on 0161 206 5319 (this is an answerphone service so please leave a message).
Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm or Email: hand.therapy@nca.nhs.uk

If you are worried about your hand/finger out of office hours and you think you need to see someone urgently, please contact your GP/Doctor or A&E department.

If your garment is lost then you will be charged for a replacement.