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Skinny jeans doctors warn of nerve damage from too tight pants
"Skinny jeans" are in fashion and are often worn by more women and men. The skin-tight pants are considered to be comfortable and stylish and currently represent the most popular jeans variant for women in particular. But the hip trousers also seem to pose dangers, as doctors warn of potential health risks. A woman from Australia could now literally experience this on her own: "The patient had to be cut out of her jeans and given medical treatment for several days after muscle and nerve damage had developed due to too much squatting."
Health risk due to tight pants
"Skinny Jeans" are not only popular since the advent of hipsters. For a long time, tight trousers have been a trend for men and women. Even though they are not comfortable to wear and also pose health risks. It has been known for some time that tight pants in men can damage sperm quality. But even for women they are not necessarily safe. Scientists report the case of a woman from Australia, who no longer felt her feet after a long squat and could no longer walk. She had to be cut out of her skimpy pants.
3 woman in the same jeans showing ideal body Nerves pressed down in lower legs
Thomas Kimber of the University of Adelaide and colleagues report on the case in the current "Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry". Thus, the 35-year-old woman from Adelaide helped a relative on the move and spent several hours in a crouched position. She got calf pain and on the way home her legs failed. The woman stumbled, lay on the ground, unable to move, it took a few hours for someone to find her and take her to a hospital. Her calves were so thick that she had to be cut out of her pants. Through her "skinny jeans", the nerves in the lower legs had been crushed during hours of squatting. The patient took little notice of touch on her lower legs and feet, her ankles and toes were hardly able to move the woman. Her knees showed normal reflexes.
Musculature showed signs of resolution
According to a report by "welt.de", the doctors diagnosed incipient rhabdomyolysis in the patient. Her musculature already showed symptoms of dissolution, as could be ascertained by an increased Creatin kinase value in the blood. It is an enzyme that is in the muscles. Although severe rhabdomyolysis can cause kidney failure, the woman's kidneys are reported to work normally. It showed that the nerves were blocked at the upper end of her calf legs. The pressure from the tightness of the pants and the squatting had led to neuropathy in the tibia and fibula, and the swollen and tight jeans had squeezed his nerves.
Fall of the Australians represents a hitherto unknown neurological complication
The neurologists warned therefore not to wear tight pants, if you have to squat longer or kneel. Otherwise you could become a "fashion victim". "In previous reports of neuropathy, the risks of wearing tight jeans have so far been limited to lesions of the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh, probably caused by compression of the nerve on the inguinal ligament. The present case thus represents a new neurological complication of wearing skinny jeans, "the researchers said in their article.
The "skinny jeans syndrome" was eventually treated with the intravenous supply of fluid. The edema in the legs went back, the feeling in the feet returned and after a few days the woman could leave the clinic. (ad, nr)