Dangers of skinny jeans revealed
When mothers tell their teenage daughters their hipster jeans are too skinny, they may be on to something.
Adelaide researchers have documented the case of a woman, 35, who had dangerously reduced blood flow to her legs after squatting for hours in skinny jeans as she helped a friend move house.
Doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital wrote in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry that her tight jeans seemed to worsen the compression caused by squatting, resulting in damage to the muscle and nerve fibres in her legs.
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The 35-year-old woman went to hospital with severe weakness in both her ankles, the day after she helped a friend move house and spent hours squatting while she emptied cupboards.
She told doctors she noticed her jeans feeling increasingly tight as the day wore on.
That night she had numbness and found it difficult to walk. She tripped, fell and spent several hours on the ground. Her calves were so swollen her jeans had to be cut off her.
The woman was put on an intravenous drip in hospital and took four days to walk again.
