An Australian
woman was admitted to the Royal
Adelaide Hospital after being trapped in her tight jeans and passed out
on the street.
Dr. Thomas Kimber, an Associate Professor of the
University of Adelaide in South Australia noted in the Journal of
Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry that the hours of squatting and kneeling
caused her calves to balloon in size, eventually leaving her feet blood short
and making it difficult to walk.
Pain and numbness in her feet caused her difficulties in
walking and made her to trip and fall, where she was unable to get up thereby
lying on the ground for several hours before being found.
“Several hours of squatting led to shortage in supply of
blood to both calves thereby causing the muscles to undergo stress and swell”,
Dr. Kimber wrote.
“We were certainly surprised and shocked. It was a surprise
to us that someone could get such severe nerve and muscle damage from such activity.
The clothing she was wearing was the critical factor,” she stressed when taken
to the hospital where the trouser where cut off by doctors due to swollen
thighs.
Kimber advised that tight pants with more elasticity wouldn’t
be as dangerous since they don’t squeeze nerves and muscles quite as much.
Doctors previously believed wearing skinny jeans have dangers limited to
lesions of the thigh.
After four days in the hospital, the woman has fully
recovered.
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