Squatting in super-tight "skinny" jeans may pose
a health risk, Australian doctors warned
Tuesday,
reporting the case of a woman who temporarily
lost feeling in her legs from an hours-long
squeeze.
The 35-year-old collapsed and had to be
hospitalised the day after helping a relative
move
home, spending hours on her haunches to
unpack cupboards.
The unusual case was reported in a British
specialist publication, the Journal of Neurology
Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
"She had been wearing tight 'skinny' jeans and
recalled that these had felt increasingly tight
and
uncomfortable as the day wore on," the journal
said.
"Later that evening, she experienced numbness
in her feet and found it difficult to walk, which
caused her to trip and fall.
"Unable to get up, she spent several hours lying
on the ground before she was found."
The woman's legs were so swollen that the
jeans could only be removed by cutting them
off,
said the statement.
She couldn't move her ankles or toes properly,
and had lost feeling in her lower legs and feet.
She was put on a drip, and was
able to walk normally again four
days later.
Doctors at the Royal Adelaide
Hospital, South Australia, said
the jeans, combined with the
squatting, had reduced blood
supply to the leg muscles.
At the same time, nerve fibres
connecting to the lower legs
had been damaged by prolonged
compression, which explained
the numbness and loss of
control.
"The present case represents a new
neurological
complication of wearing tight jeans," they wrote. Source: http://www.gidimasters.com/2015/06/how-skinny-jeans-could-pose-health-risk.html?m=1