Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 42-year-old man with no past medical history and prescribed no medications presented to the ED with complaints ...
The deep posterior compartment is a sheath containing muscles in the lower leg that lies just behind the tibia bone. Compartment syndromes arise when a muscle becomes too big for the sheath that ...
Microscopic tears of the muscle away from the lining of the bone causes the pain. Predisposing factors include overpronation and running on hard surfaces, and shin splints are more common in novice ...
Correspondence to Dr Michiel B Winkes, Department of General Surgery, Máxima Medical Center, Veldhoven, The Netherlands; m.winkes{at}mmc.nl ...
In recent medical practice, one of the most common findings observed in the orthopedic department is of acute compartment syndrome and related disability. The compartment syndrome occurs due to a ...
Introduction Endoscopic treatment of intractable chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) of the lower leg in athletes is reported rarely and anecdotically. Methods We developed a minimally ...
Fasciotomy is a surgical procedure where the fascia is cut to relieve the compartmental pressure in patients with compartment syndrome of the limbs. Fascia is a tough limiting inelastic fibrous ...
The gold standard for diagnosing CECS is compartment pressure testing. [21] This involves the insertion of either a large bore needle or a wick catheter into the apparently affected muscular ...
Could it be shin splints, a stress fracture or tendonitis? Here’s what you need to know about treating lower-leg complaints.
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