Be Careful! Is It Possible To Wear Tight Jeans?

Recently, a 35 year old woman was unable to walk because her legs were swollen and her ankle was weak.

In the hospital, the doctors had to cut her out.

Free her swollen legs.

What is her diagnosis?

Compartment syndrome.

A symptom resulting from excessive oppression of the body, such as wearing tight jeans.

In June 22nd, Journal of Neurology (Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry) published this somewhat irrelevant Research Report: "victims of fashion: rhabdomyolysis, bilateral peroneal nerve injury and tibial neuropathy caused by squatting movements in tight jeans".

In the hospital, the woman told the doctor that she wore a very tight pair of jeans all day.

During the process of helping a relative move, she kept squatting down and emptying the cupboards, and then she began to feel the pain and discomfort.

Medical diagnosis showed that the nerves and muscles of her legs were damaged.

The injury prevented her from walking in a few days, and this example shows the potential danger of fashion.

"I can say with certainty.

We need to be careful in doing such an activity. "

Thomas Kimber, a neurologist at Royal Adelaide hospital in Adelaide University, Australia, said in an interview with Business Insider.

He treated the woman and was one of the authors who wrote the research report.

So next time you need to do squatting for a long time, consider changing the skinny jeans into the same fashionable bottoming pants.

Ben wanted to take a walk in the park and get into hospital.

The woman told the doctor that one day she felt that her jeans were getting tighter and more uncomfortable.

When she was walking in the park in the evening, she noticed that her legs began to numb, and she could not raise her legs very quickly.

Kimber said the woman collapsed and landed in a few hours before reaching the roadside and summoning a taxi to the hospital.

When Kimber and his colleagues examined the woman, they found that the leg part of her knee was swollen very severely because the medical staff had to cut her jeans.

The woman's leg was seriously injured and she could not move or feel her legs, Kimber added.

Medical tests showed that the amount of creatine kinase in the woman exceeded the standard - this is a sign of muscle damage, and if it is not treated for a long time, it may even damage the kidneys.

Luckily, her kidney function is normal.

CT scan showed that her muscle mass was low, which was also a sign of muscle damage.

Other tests showed that the two main nerves (the common peroneal nerve and the tibial nerve) in this woman's leg were not functioning properly.

The woman was able to recover after having enough salt water and sufficient rest, Kimber said.

Is it possible for anyone to get hurt?

This type of calf nerve injury usually comes from the oppression at the top of the leg bone, such as long squat.

Researchers believe that in the case of the woman, wearing tight jeans increases the pressure on the legs and makes the situation worse.

"If she wears loose trousers, her leg muscles can expand outward.

But because wearing tight jeans, her swollen muscles can only constract nerves and blood vessels.

Kimber explains.

There are also a few reports that point out that wearing tight pants is an example of compression of groin and numbness of the legs, but this is the first case to clearly point out that wearing tight jeans will damage specific nerves and muscles.

Fortunately, there is no medical report yet.

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