A 35 year old woman, who is just trying to help a family member ended in the hospital because of her skinny jeans.
The Australian woman was helping her relative to move house, but she was brought to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia, according to the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
After some test, the doctors found out that there's a severe swelling below her knees and her ankles and toes were too weak that she was not able to move her legs. The nursing staff had to cut her jeans just to remove them.
They tried to figure out what caused her injury, she recalled that as she was helping her relative and spent hours of squatting to empty cupboards. She was wearing skinny jeans the whole time and then started to feel discomfort in her legs.
While walking home the woman started to notice that her foot was getting numb and when she tried to lift them, she could not move them anymore.
She was lying on the ground for few hours before she was found.
Then the doctors figured out that pressure from her skinny jeans while doing a squat damaged her nerves. They called it compartment syndrome, which can lead to amputation.
Thomas Kimber, MD, a neurologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital explained to Yahoo health her case, "It was the combination of squatting and tight jeans that caused the problem," he tells Yahoo Health. "Squatting would have compressed the peroneal nerves in the lower leg and reduced the blood supply to the calf muscles; the tight jeans meant that, as the calf muscles started to swell in response to the reduced blood supply, they compressed the adjacent tibial nerves and further cut off the blood supply to the muscles."
He added, the swelling and damage was caused by the pressure that decreased the blood flow that provides nourishment and oxygen to her legs.
The patient was confined in the hospital for four days on intravenous fluid.
She has already regained her strength and has gone home.
