It’s been over five years since the last time a neurologist had to issue a health PSA on skinny jeans, but here we are again.
A woman in Adelaide collapsed after her skinny jeans cut off blood supply to her calves, spending four days in hospital. She’s since made a full recovery, and is now probably rethinking her sartorial choices.
The neurologist who treated her, Associate Professor Thomas Kimber, has today given the ABC his ‘clothing tips’ in a warning to prevents others succumbing to the same problem. What a world we live in, hey?
They are:
- Wear appropriate clothes for the task
- Looser clothing, perhaps with elasticity, will let muscles expand
- If tingling is felt, such as when squatting, get up and walk around.
Now he didn’t specify what kind of tingling, so we can misconstrue to our heart’s content.
Here’s what went down: the woman spent the day helping her relatives move, which involved poppin’ a lot of squats. She felt a tingling, but brushed it off. Later that evening she collapsed while walking in a park and had to crawl to the raid, hailing a taxi to hospital. Her legs were so swollen her jeans had to be cut off. She’s since made a full recovery, but had to stay a full four days in hospital to get her there.
Jesus. Ouch.
Professor Kimber called the 35-year-old woman a “fashion victim”. Maaaaaate. She spent four days in hospital and now needs a new pair of jeans. Issue important health warnings all you want, but let’s ease up on the judgement, hmmm?
Back in 2009 (which is basically another lifetime in internet years), we wrote about another neurologist, Dr John England, who issued a similar warning: “The nerve, in some people, is susceptible to compression… It is a pure sensory nerve as it doesn’t go to muscles or provide strength. Anything that is tight around there could potentially compress the nerve that goes there.”
In the past, skinny jeans have also been linked to testicular problems in men. If there was ever a reason to burn the things altogether and fully submerse yourself in the comfy pants trend, this might be it.
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via ABC
