Swelling Down

Theo Grant

By evening your ankles feel tight against your socks and your legs carry a dull, heavy ache that sitting down never quite fixes. This is a calm walkthrough of what is actually happening in the tissue, the daily habits that make the biggest difference (movement, elevation, salt awareness, the right kind of compression), and how to tell ordinary end-of-day swelling from something worth mentioning to a doctor. Practical relief for tired legs.