Chronic leg pain in athletes due to a recurrent compartment syndrome
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Vol. 12 (2), 148-151
- https://doi.org/10.1177/036354658401200211
Abstract
A series of 29 patients, all engaged in sports activity on a regular basis, suffering from recurrent compart mental syndrome, is reported. The syndrome is not restricted only to long distance runners but to athletes involved in a variety of sports activities (soccer, volley ball, cycle racing, gymnastics, judo, physical education, and long distance running). Although most patients presented activity-related leg pain, some patients mainly complained of ankle weakness and recurrent ankle distortions at fatigue. The wick catheter technique proved to be most useful to determine which compartments were involved. The severity of clinical symptoms correlated highly with the anomalies of the tissue pressure measurements. The predominance of deep posterior compartment and mul tiple compartment involvement are in contrast with most previous reports. Conservative treatment was unsuccessful in every patient, whereas surgical de compression of the involved compartments yielded fa vorable results in those cases where all the involved compartments were released.Keywords
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