Skinny Jeans Can Lead to Nerve and Muscle Damage, Doctors Say - ABC News
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Doctors are warning potential fashion “victims” to beware of their skinny jeans after one woman suffered muscle and nerve damage from a too tight pair of pants.
L’article consultable dans le Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Fashion victim: rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of squatting in ‘skinny jeans’
Wai et al. — Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
▻http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2015/05/27/jnnp-2015-310628.full
A 35-year-old woman presented with severe weakness of both ankles.
On the day prior to presentation, she had been helping a family member move house. This involved many hours of squatting while emptying cupboards. She had been wearing ‘skinny jeans’, and recalled that her jeans had felt increasingly tight and uncomfortable during the day. Later that evening, while walking home, she noticed bilateral foot drop and foot numbness, which caused her to trip and fall. She spent several hours lying on the ground before she was found.
On examination, her lower legs were markedly oedematous bilaterally, worse on the right side, and her jeans could only be removed by cutting them off. There was bilateral, severe global weakness of ankle and toe movements, somewhat more marked on the right.
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The patient was treated with intravenous hydration. The oedema and neurological function of her lower limbs improved significantly, such that at the time of discharge 4 days later she was able to walk unaided.