Method of making bespoke knitted compression garment

A method of modelling a bespoke knitted compression garment comprising material courses, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a representation of a body part on which the compression garment is to be worn, the representation comprising a plurality of datapoints;
• b) defining a plurality of representation courses around the representation, each representation course representing one of the material courses of the compression garment when worn on the body part;
• c) selecting, for each representation course, a set of datapoints from the plurality of datapoints, each set of datapoints being located within one of the representation courses;
• d) fitting a curve to each set of datapoints;
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• e) calculating a circumference value of each curve.

A method of providing a matched compression garment to a patient, comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a representation of a body part of the patient on which the compression garment is to be worn, the representation comprising a plurality of datapoints and including size data corresponding to a size of the body part;
• b) determining a pressure configuration to be applied by the compression garment on the body part;
• c) providing a database of pre-existing compression garments having different size data and for applying different pressure configurations;
• d) selecting a pre-existing compression garment from the database based on matching size data and pressure configuration of the representation to the size data and pressure configuration of the pre-existing compression garment;
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• e) providing the pre-existing compression garment to the patient.