A medical compression garment for applying compression to a patient's body part may include a first material adapted to be wrapped around the body part, and a second material fixated on a section of the first material. The second material collapses the first material such that the first material forms wrinkles along the section.

A chip sleeve garment including an outer layer of fabric connected to an inner layer of fabric to form a sleeve with a space between the outer layer of fabric and the inner layer of fabric. Foam chips, flat foam, or foam with ridges are disposed in the space between the outer layer of fabric and the inner layer of fabric. The garment includes two ends, including at least one open end, and a notch in at least one open end having an opening. The notch can be separated to create a larger opening than the opening to allow the garment to be donned or doffed easier than the opening allows. A second garment can be disposed over the chip sleeve garment. Either the chip sleeve garment, the second garment, or both can be compression garments.

An orthosis for support of a joint, adapted to the thumb or wrist, having sleeve-like main member made of an elastic material, adapted to envelop the joint and distal and proximal limb portions on either side of the joint, elastically deformable panel housed in a pocket formed in the main member, and non-elastic bracing device for bracing the main member and a proximal portion of the panel around the proximal limb portion, the panel being configured such that, over at least 50 % of the length of the main member along the limb portions, including a limb portion covered by the bracing device, the panel has a cross-section occupying more than 30 % of the perimeter of the underlying limb, the panel having a stiffness defined by a Young's modulus between S and 10 MPa, while the material forming the main member has a stiffness of a lower order of magnitude.