A woman collapsed and spent hours unable to move because she was wearing skinny jeans, medical experts have said.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old’s calves were so swollen that her jeans had to be cut off her.<\/p>\n
Her story has now been published in the Journal of Neurology to raise awareness of the dangers of wearing tight clothes.<\/p>\n
After helping a relative move house – during which she spent a number of hours squatting as she emptied cupboards – she experienced numbness in her feet and found it difficult to walk.<\/p>\n
This led her to trip and fall and unable to get up, she then spent several hours lying on the ground before she was found.<\/p>\n
She was only able to walk unaided after four days of treatment.<\/p>\n
Doctors found she had damaged muscle and nerve fibres in her lower legs as a result of prolonged compression while squatting, which they believed her tight jeans had made worse.<\/p>\n
Associate Professor Thomas Edmund Kimber, of the University of Adelaide in South Australia, said: “The present case represents a new neurological complication of wearing tight jeans.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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