Can you tell me anything about compartment syndrome. ?

Serious: It is a very severe and serious condition that can result in nerve and muscle damage if not treated. It results from pressure on those tissues, often from fracture or crush injury.

Acute and chronic: generally trauma to an extremity with rapid significant swelling can cause in upper or lower extremities. extremely painful. hurts to lift ankle in the calf area is the usual finding. the compartments are muscles that travel in fascial compartments that get to tight from swelling and there is no yield or give of these compartments. can be critical to get compartments open quickly