Many manufacturers provide data that they have collected themselves - in house research. However if research is to be objective, data should never be collected by individuals that have a financial interest in the product(s) being researched. Independent research means that a researcher has absolutely no financial interest in the outcome of the research has collected the data. Would you trust the outcomes of a research study if the person that collected the data stood to make large sums of money from the findings?

If a company promotes a "breakthrough finding" or "revolutionary discovery" the research should be published. Publishing research generally involves submitting the research to a scientific conference or scientific journal. Other scientists that are deemed to be experts in the relevant field will then review the research. If it is deemed to be of high quality it will be accepted for publication. If the research has been published it will generally be accompanied by a scientific reference such as the example below (for the Body Science® Myocytin ® research):

Rogerson, S, Weatherby, R.P. and Nicholson, V. A comparison of two commercially available creatine supplements on Performance, Anthropometric and Morphological Measures. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 6(4);S39. 2003.

Very few companies are able to back up their marketing claims with published scientific research. The fact is that talk is cheap, yet scientific research is expensive and published data can take years. Therefore a company must be VERY confident in their product to be prepared to have it independently tested. Consequently, many companies consider independent scientific research too risky in case their product(s) don't live up to their hyped marketing campaigns.

Therefore, when you purchase Kompressorz compression garments you need to be confident that the claims being made will be backed by published independent scientific research.

However this takes time. Estimated completion date Mid 2006.