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The real reason for wearing them is for keeping your circulation in the arms going. For example, you would wear it on your shooting arm in Basketball, but on both arms in tennis. Does that make sense?

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Two things come from an arm sleeve.

First, when you keep muscles warm they resist spasms that cause tightness and second, compression keeps blood from causing swelling.

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