A woman who squatted in skinny jeans for hours while helping a family member pack had to be treated in hospital for four days, doctors in Australia say.
The 35-year-old woman went to hospital with severe weakness in both ankles after she'd spent the previous day squatting while emptying cupboards.
She'd been wearing tight-fitting skinny jeans and recalled they felt increasingly tight and uncomfortable. By evening, she experienced numbness in her feet and found it difficult to walk. The woman spent hours lying on the ground before she was found
When she was examined in hospital, her calves were so swollen that the jeans had to be cut off.
In Tuesday's issue of the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Dr. Thomas Kimber of the neurology unit at Royal Adelaide Hospital and his colleagues describe how the muscle and nerve fibres in her lower legs were damaged.
"The present case represents a new neurological complication of wearing tight jeans," the team wrote in an article titled, "Fashion victim:rhabdomyolosis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of squatting in 'skinny jeans.'"
They suspect the tight jeans worsened the prolonged compression from squatting.
The result was reduced blood supply to the leg muscles, causing swelling of the muscles and compression of the adjacent nerves.
She was treated with IV fluids, the swelling and neurological function in her legs improved and the woman was able to walk without assistance when she was discharged four days later.
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