The leg should be prepared from the iliac crest to the knee joint. For lateral and posterior compartment syndromes ... The vastus lateralis muscle is reflected superiorly and medially to expose ...

Mr Matthews instructed colleagues to closely observe her leg for symptoms of compartment syndrome, a condition that occurs ...

When an injury to the leg results in swelling, dangerous muscle pressure levels can lead to acute or chronic compartment syndrome. This possibly may be due to a fracture or severe bruising.

but she then developed acute compartment syndrome in her right leg, a condition caused by extreme swelling of muscle tissue or internal bleeding after a severe injury. Doctors scrambled to get her ...

Diagnosis is made by measuring the compartment pressures during exercise ... Finally other rarer causes of exercise induced leg pain are discussed, namely muscle hernia, popliteal artery entrapment ...

We suggest (in cases of bilateral symptoms) that it is possible to investigate one limb only and to be able to safely conclude that a positive result indicates that CECS is present in the ...

Chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) is an increasingly recognized cause of leg pain in soccer players ... Diagnosis can be confirmed by measuring the muscle pressures during activity.