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Compartment syndrome leads to ischemia. what will be the downstream effects for the associated muscles & nerves?

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Dr. Joseph Pfeifer answered

Specializes in Trauma Surgery

Consequences: 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. One can get chronic pain and/or muscle weakness, resulting in a limp. Muscles may atrophy (shrink).

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Answered 5/8/2016

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Over time does exertional compartment syndrome cause all of the compartments in the lower leg to be affected? Smaller tenser muscles?

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Is it typical to check for compartment syndrome when a muscle hernia is found in the leg?

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I have terrible pains in my lower legs when I do exercise. Feels like claws into my calves as well as the muscles next to my shins. Speaking to the bio kineticist, she suggested testing for exertional compartment syndrome. Who could test if it ist?

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My forearm muscles on both arms are strained and it feels like compartment syndrome. It is literally all the muscles and the tendons and ligaments. I cant do much and the muscles fatigue nearly immediately if I use my arms for anything.

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