If left untreated, compartment syndrome can cause lasting damage. Learn more about what causes it and how to treat it.

To understand chronic compartment syndrome, an overuse injury that typically prompts pain in the calf, it’s helpful to start with a little anatomy lesson. While most of us don’t think of our ...

Compartment syndrome of the brachium is less common than that of the forearm or hand, because a significantly greater amount of swelling (volume change) is necessary to increase interstitial pressure.

Compartment syndrome is caused by increased pressure in a muscle compartment, a confined space found within thick layers of tissue called fascia that surround muscle tissue, nerves and blood vessels.

HealthWatch: Compartment Syndrome September 7, 2010 / 9:43 AM EDT / CBS New York NEW YORK (CBS 2) -- It's a condition that can strike you or your kids when you exercise.

Doctors were surprised to find that squatting in the tight jeans had lead to compartment syndrome, a dangerous condition where an injury leads to swelling of the muscle or nerves that is ...

Compartment syndrome in the upper arm is an uncommon occurrence. Most of the literature on compartment syndrome describes occurrences in the lower leg and forearm.

When someone develops compartment syndrome, it means that something has caused an abnormal buildup of pressure within the affected muscles.

Some say a supplement is the culprit in a rash of compartment syndrome cases. August 23, 2010 -- An Oregon hospital is running tests to determine if a muscle-enhancing supplement may have caused ...

Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks was hospitalized on Sunday night after their win over the New Orleans Saints when he developed compartment syndrome in his right leg, head coach Kevin O ...