Woman loses feeling in legs after wearing tight ‘skinny’ jeans
Squatting in super-tight "skinny" jeans may pose a health risk, Australian doctors warned after a woman temporarily lost feeling in her legs from a hours-long squeeze.
Squatting in super-tight “skinny” jeans may pose a health risk, Australian doctors warned after a woman temporarily lost feeling in her legs from a hours-long squeeze.
According to a report in a British specialist publication, the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry a 35-year-old woman collapsed and had to be hospitalised after spending hours on her haunches the previous day helping a relative to move home.
“She had been wearing tight ‘skinny’ jeans and recalled that these had felt increasingly tight and uncomfortable as the day wore on,” the journal said.
“Later that evening, she experienced numbness in her feet and found it difficult to walk. “Unable to get up, she spent several hours lying on the ground before she was found.”
The woman’s legs were so swollen that the jeans could only be removed by cutting them off, said the statement.
She was put on a drip, and was able to walk normally again four days later.
Doctors at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, said the jeans, combined with the squatting, had reduced blood supply to the leg muscles.
