Yes, you read that headline correctly. A pipe-cut pair of pants in your closet may be the culprit of health complications if you plan on doing any prolonged knee-bending while wearing them, says science.
The misfortunate guinea pig for this unexpected study of the pitfalls of fashionable legwear is a 35-year-old woman from Australia. Business Insider reports that she was wearing skinny jeans and kneeling for prolonged periods of time while she was helping a friend pack for a move. Her legs reportedly swelled up and her ankles became weak. After being hospitalized, doctors had to cut the pants off and diagnosed her with compartment syndrome, a condition where increased pressure builds up somewhere in the body (generally the legs or arms).
A group of researchers monitored her recovery and titled the study, somewhat cheekily, "Fashion victim: rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of squatting in ‘skinny jeans.’ " It notes: "We postulate that, in the present case, the peroneal neuropathies were the result of compression between the biceps femoris tendon and fibular head as a result of squatting … The wearing of ‘skinny’ jeans had likely potentiated the tibial neuropathies by causing a compartment syndrome as the lower legs swelled."
So what's to be gleaned from all of this information is that your skinny jeans are a no-go on moving day.
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