Wearing Tight Skinny Jeans For Hours Together Causes Numbness, Damages Nerve Fibers

Australian doctors warn that squatting in super-tight skinny jeans may pose a health risk, representing a new neurological complication. Recently, a 35-year-old woman was hospitalized after she temporarily lost feeling in her legs from an hours-long squeeze.

Doctors at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, said the jeans, combined with the squatting, had reduced blood supply to the leg muscles. At the same time, nerve fibers connecting to the lower legs had been damaged by prolonged compression, which explained the numbness and loss of control.

The unusual case was reported in a British specialist publication, the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

The authors wrote, "She had been wearing tight 'skinny' jeans and recalled that these had felt increasingly tight and uncomfortable as the day wore on. Later that evening, she experienced numbness in her feet and found it difficult to walk, which caused her to trip and fall. 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. She couldn't move her ankles or toes properly, and had lost feeling in her lower legs and feet.

She was put on a drip, and was able to walk normally again after four days.

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Source-AFP