Woman Hospitalized After Wearing Skinny Jeans That Were Too Tight
For all of your fashion lovers, your skinny jeans could cause some severe pain to your body. A 35-year-old Australian woman was recently hospitalized after her skinny jeans were too tight, causing muscle and nerve damage. According to reports, the woman was helping a family member move. After repeatedly squatting the in skinny jeans for hours, the jeans became tighter and tighter, causing her muscles to swell. The swelling then caused numbness in the woman’s feet.
Due to her feet being numb, she tripped and fell on the floor. The skinny jeans were so tight on her body that she couldn’t move and she was on the floor for hours before someone found her on the ground. The woman was treated at the hospital where doctors had to physically remove the jeans by cutting them off. Doctors stated that the woman’s calf muscles swelled up to the point that taking the jeans off the traditionally way was impossible.
Thomas Kimber, a neurologist at Royal Adelaide Hospital, treated the woman and said that friction of the jeans from squatting is what likely caused the problem. He said that you should be careful wearing tight clothing while doing manual labor for long periods of time.
“We believe it was the combination of squatting and tight jeans that caused the problems. Squatting would have compressed the peroneal nerves in the lower leg and reduced the blood supply to the calf muscles. Because you work out really hard, the muscle swells and there is only so much room in the leg or arm and no room for the muscles to expand. The blood vessels and nerves can get compressed.”
