BOOST YOUR PERFORMANCES 1996 AN INVENTION THAT REVOLUTIONISES 2016 THE WORLD OF SPORT THE PINNACLE OF SELECTIVE COMPRESSION Salvatore CORONA President of BV SPORT® BV SPORT® A GREAT HISTORY

The Olympic champion and vascular doctor behind and development centre. BV SPORT®. Innovation, quality, design In 1989, two young vascular doctors, one of which is and marketing became the Dr Michaël Prüfer, multiple world champion and speed BV SPORT® mantra, values skiing champion at the Albertville Winter Olympics, that are reinforced by its long-standing scientific and athletic took an interest in improving the performance of top- support. In order to provide scientific evidence of the anticipated level athletes. The two vascular doctors combined effects of the invention of selective compression, the BV SPORT® their skills and invented a new engineers and doctors stepped up their and revolutionary concept of research, collaborating with the Saint- compression support socks CONTINUOUSLY Étienne Engineering School in 2010. designed specifically for athletes: The engineering thesis by Laura Dubuis the Booster Veins Sport system. INNOVATING focuses specifically on the reaction that They then founded the company soft biological leg tissues have under elastic BV SPORT® and filed patents. FOR ATHLETES’ compression and definitively proves that They were greeted with immediate living biological tissues (muscles, fat) act success and welcomed by PERFORMANCE as a pressure shock absorber as pressure prestigious clients: BV SPORT® is absorbed by the thickness of the living products are used by Europe’s leading clubs and the world’s biological tissues before being transmitted to the deep vascular best athletes. system. Numerous dynamometer tests, MRIs, Doppler ultrasounds and From to Cyril Viennot... 20 years of scientific studies confirmed just how superior the BV SPORT® evolving compression. concept is and revolutionised the world of compression support In 1999, BV SPORT® integrated a reinforced mesh over the once again, including in the medical profession. gastrocnemius muscles in order to focus the compression on the calves, and designed tailor-made “performance” The best-selling BOOSTER ELITE. compression socks worn during exercise. This targeted In 2011, the first “BOOSTER Elite” incorporating these new compression is used by the French national football team upon features is produced using knitting machines, giving the products a the instruction of the medical team... “Selective” compression near-perfect anatomical made-to-measure design. is born. Today, every BV SPORT® product, including recovery socks, sleeves and shorts, has built-in selective compression. The high- From athletics to running: from socks to BOOSTER sleeves. quality “Made in ” production, along with the masterful In 2002, upon the request of French Athletics Federation athletes combination of applied pressure and selective compression, make who wanted to keep their technical ankle socks, BV SPORT® BV SPORT® the undisputed leader in the field of compression for launched its new innovative compression BOOSTER sleeve athletes*. design on the market, with over a million products sold to date. In 2006, a new team took the reins of the company and decided to invest in an integrated production facility and a research *Source : étude 2015, BV SPORT® N°1 devant Kalengi Traduction manquante THE RESEARCH AT THE CENTRE OF INNOVATION

INVENTION OF THE BV SPORT® CONCEPT

In 1989, Dr Couzan was supervising Dr Michaël Prüfer’s thesis on research into blood circulation problems associated with sportsmen. Michaël Prüfer was then a multiple record holder and speed skiing world champion. Notably, he won the speed skiing gold medal at the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992. Michaël Prüfer The two vascular doctors combined Olympic Champion their skills and, after years of scientific 1992 ALBERTVILLE WINTER research focusing on top-level athletes, OLYMPICS SPEED SKIING. Co-founder of BV SPORT® invented and developed a new and revolutionary concept of compression support socks that are designed to significantly improve muscular performance and speed up recovery. 1998 SOCKS FOR REVO- CHAMPIONS 1998 World Cup: All of the French team’s international players used the first BV SPORT® recovery socks, LUTION produced especially for the tournament. Success was achieved and since then BV SPORT® has been kitting out the vast majority of French and European professional football clubs.

1999 FROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS...

During the Soyuz TM-29 flight, the Franco-Russian mission wore BV SPORT® socks. The astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré and physician astronaut Bernard Comet are convinced: “We used BV SPORT® socks for the 8 days that followed the landing, and even afterwards during sport sessions. We did not suffer any malleolar oedema, even though that is very common after long flights.” 2002 INVENTION OF THE BOOSTER SLEEVE

Odiah Sidibé, advocate of BV SPORT® socks and bronze medallist in the 4x100m relay race at the 2001 European championships in Munich, persuaded the male and female relay athletes to test out the BV SPORT® concept. CHAM-

Just like the athletes, the technical and medical staff unanimously declared that it improves performance, reduces the risk of injury and speeds up recovery. In order to fulfil the wishes of the athletes who wanted to keep their ankle socks or PIONS have bare feet under their shoes, BV SPORT® launched its innovative compression BOOSTER sleeve design on the market!

Since 2010, BV SPORT® has been a partner of the French Athletics Federation and has sold over a million Boosters worldwide.

2007 ANOTHER WORLD CUP Having conquered football, basketball and athletics, BV SPORT® won over the world of rugby. At the request of Imanol Harinordoquy, the French players also enjoyed the benefits of the BV SPORT® concept during the . MADE-IN-FRANCE CRAFTSMANSHIP

Our production facility, located in Saint-Étienne just a few minutes away from the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium, produces all of the compression support ranges.

These product ranges meet strict specifications set by our research and development centre, which includes sports physicians and textiles engineers. Our compression support ranges are manufactured using medical circular knitting machines.

This production technique enables us to indisputably control the pressure applied and cut more accurately. Our production facility applies a quality policy that guarantees complete traceability for optimum quality and production monitoring.

MILLION BOOSTERS

N° 1 OVER SOLD IN FRANCE according to the French 1 Federation of Sport and Leisure Industries

KM OF THREAD KNITTED 1152 PER DAY AT THE CENTRE OF INNOVATION: R&D

Since the launch of the first sport sock in 2000 (the Performance range), BV SPORT® engineers have increased their use of selective compression and mesh of variable rigidity in product design.

Using a patented measuring device (AMPVE) that establishes pressure transmitted through living biological tissues, the BV SPORT® R&D centre with its many scientific studies proved that the pressure put on the lower limbs varies depending on the type and thickness of the living biological tissues of which they are composed. These biological tissues act as a pressure shock absorber (muscles and fat) or are otherwise incompressible (bones, tendons and nerves). These results are validated using MRI scans by doctors from the BV SPORT® R&D centre. These innovative features enabled the design and development of the configuration of the medical knitting machines. The concept of mesh with variable levels of rigidity and elasticity (flexible/semi-rigid/rigid) is now integrated into the production of all compression ranges: Booster Original, Booster Elite, ProRecup, Comfort, shorts... The BV SPORT® research and development centre makes reference to compression support problems in athletes.

DIJON CENTRE OF PERFORMANCE EXPERTISE / CENBIOTECH CLINICAL INVESTIGATION CENTRE Athlete performance tests are scientifically studied by the Dijon Centre of Performance Expertise and the CENBIOTEC Clinical Investigation Centre.

YEARS

DIJON CENTRE OF OF SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE RESEARCH PATENTS EXPERTISE INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND STUDIES

> Professeur F.A. ALLAERT / BV SPORT® : Etude randomisée contrôlée de l’effet d’un manchon de contention compression progressive/sélective BV SPORT® sur l’endurance et la récupération. (Centre de la performance et du sport de Dijon). > Professeur F.A. ALLAERT / CENBIOTEC / BVSPORT - Etude observationnelle de la réduction de la cellulite sous l’effet du cuissard BV SPORT® au cours de séances d’exercices physiques. > L. DUBUIS - École Supérieure Nationale d’ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne / BV SPORT® 12/2011 Biomécanique des tissus mous de la jambe humaine sous compression élastique > AVRILS, BOUTEN L., DUBUIS L., DRAPIER S., POUGET JF.:Mixed experimental and numerical approach for characterizing the biomechanical response of the human leg under elastic compression. J Biomech Eng. 2010 Mar; 132(3):031006. > POUGET J.F., GEDROYC W.M.W, PRÜFER M., ARGAUD C., MISMETTI P., COUZAN S.: Nuclear magnetic resonance (N.M.R) study of leg venous drainage men with and without elastic compression socks (traditional and new BVSPORT concept). Int Angiol, june 2000, 19 (suppl.1 No 2) 58. > PRÜFER M., FERRET J.M., POUGET J.F. COUZAN S : Invention d’un appareil de mesure des pressions veineuses par écho-Doppler. Résultats chez 229 sportifs. Journal de Radiologie ; 49èmes Journées Françaises de Radiologie, oct. 2001 : 1220. > MOSTI G., PARTSCH H.: Compression Stockings with a Negative Pressure Gradient Have a More Pronounced Effect on Venous Pumping Function than Graduated Elastic Compression Stockings, Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2011;42:261-266. > MOSTI G., PARTSCH H.: High compression pressure over the calf is more effective than graduated compression in enhancing venous pump function. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2012 Sep;44(3):332-6. > A. LEIZOROVICZ, S. LAPORTE, P. MISMETTI, JF. POUGET, C. CHAPELLE, I. QUERE, S. COUZAN: A randomize double-blind trial of upward progressive vs degressive compressive stockings in patients with moderate to severe chronic venous insufficiency, J Vasc Surg. Nov 2012; 56 (5):1344-1350.(BV SPORT® /Laboratoire Pierre Fabre )

BV SPORT® Patents: > Brevet BV SPORT® / N° BR/079540 N.CORONA S.CORONA Docteurs J.F. POUGET, S. COUZAN > Brevet BV SPORT® / N°PCT/FR97/01892 Docteur M.PRUFER Docteur S.COUZAN > Brevet BV SPORT® / N°PCT /FR 00/011956 Docteur S.COUZAN Docteur M.PRUFER > Brevet BV SPORT® / Pierre Fabre Médicament N° PCT/FR 2 936409B1 Docteurs M PRUFER, S. COUZAN > Brevet BV SPORT® / Pierre Fabre Médicament N° WO2010/037609 compression stoking for moderate to severe crhonic venous insuffisiency SELECTIVE COMPRESSION Raideur (N/mm) THE BOOSTER EFFECT0,2 0,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 0,7 0,8

The medical community has always been surprised by the study of athletes’ vascular systems by the doctors who founded BV SPORT® and by the invention of the resulting unique products, which have sometimes swum against the tide of the established medical rules with regards to compression.

In 2000, a scientific study completed in cooperation with Dr Jean Marcel Ferret, the physician for the French national football team, showed that compression transmitted by an elastic sleeve varies depending on the size and shape of athletes’ bodies. Since then, BV SPORT® has designed anatomically bespoke sports products for the French national football team. Incorporated into the technical design of this range’s products is mesh of variable rigidity and elasticity in order to intensify the compression of the calf. Raideur Rigid mesh targets specific areas of compression. Pression Living biological tissues act as a pressure shock absorber (muscles and fat) or are otherwise incompressible (bones and, to a lesser extent, tendons and nerves). These innovative Déformation features have been demonstrated by the doctors and engineers at the BV SPORT® R&D centre. They led to the design of mesh with variable levels of rigidity as part of the same elastic compression sleeve. Since 2000, these variable levels of mesh rigidity (flexible/ semi-rigid/rigid) have been incorporated into the production of our compression ranges: Performance, Booster, ProRecup, shorts.

The reliability and performance of our compression products have been proven and have today earned us a leading position within our market.

(2015 FIFAS Study, Federation of Sport and0 Leisure*)0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4 0,5 Low pressure This patented selective compression concept respects athletes’ anatomy and physiology, optimises muscular biomechanics during movement, improves venous 1 Deformation // Pression (10 /kpa) Medium pressure return, limits extraneous vibrations and oscillations, decreases the risk of stiffness and thereby raises the fatigue threshold. High pressure

*See the studies carried out at www.bvsport.com Source : Thesis by Laura Dubuis National Engineering School of Saint-Étienne Further information at www.lauradubuis.fr ENGINEERING THESIS

In 2011, BV SPORT® collaborated with the National Engineering School of Saint-Étienne on the thesis of Laura Dubuis, COMPRESSION which definitively proved that the reaction of living biological tissues has a crucial impact on pressure transmission. 79% 347%9% 34% D‘AMÉLIORATION D‘AMÉLIORATD‘AMÉION LIORATION D‘AMÉLIORATION DU RETOUR VEINEUX DU RETOUR VEDUINE RETOUX UR VEINEUX DU RETOUR VEINEUX 2X INDEPENDENT CLINICAL STUDY AS In 2011, an independent clinical study completed by traditional compression (the percentage of blood pumped EFFECTIVE two internationally renowned professors, Dr Mosti to the heart is increased by 74% compared to 34% with and Dr Partsch, proved that the compression support conventional compression). patented by BV SPORT® is twice as effective as CONTENTION CONTENTION CONTENTION CONTENTION PROGRESSIVE DEGRESSIVEPROGRESSIVE DEGRESSIVE BREVET BV SPORT® AUTRE CONTENTIOBRENVET BV SPORT® AUTRE CONTENTION

BV SPORT® CONVENTIONAL COMPRESSION COMPRESSION 79% 34% improvement improvement in venous return in venous return COMPRESSION OF THE CALF 1 Fast and effective elimination of toxins.

CALF SUPPORT 2 Reinforced knitting in calf area. Improves calf muscle support. PREFERRED BY 3 ASYMMETRIC G-CONCEPT ATHLETES Asymmetric Booster. As close as possible to the anatomy of the calf’s physiology. Optimises the performance The BOOSTER Elite compression sleeve is the result of 2 years of the propulsive calf muscles. of research and packs 5 technical and scientific innovations into just 25 grams of next-generation material. It combines the latest smart textiles innovations with the NEXT-GENERATION countless BV SPORT® scientific studies and tests. The targeted CERAMIC THREAD and adapted pressure on the calf area, known as selective 4 compression, speeds up the elimination of toxins, while Cross-section thin stranded thread charged limiting extraneous oscillatory movements and vibrations, with ceramic-based nanoparticles. This new thread improves venous return which cause fatigue and muscle damage. and thermoregulation. Worn solely during exercise, BOOSTER Elite raises the fatigue threshold, enhances performance and reduces the risk of SOLEUS PROTECT SYSTEM injury. 5 Supports the Achilles tendon. Improves the tone of the stabilising calf 7 muscles and reduces extraneous vibrations and oscillations. AERO TIBIAL WINDOWS

Specific lightweight knitting at the tibia level. Protection of the sensitive SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT pretibial structures: periosteum, superficial 6 Our compression support ranges are nerves and microcirculation. manufactured using circular knitting machines. This technique enables us to control the pressure and cut more accurately. ALWAYS THEY ON YOUR SHELF TRUST US:

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