When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

The leg should be prepared from the iliac crest to the knee joint. For lateral and posterior compartment syndromes ... The vastus lateralis muscle is reflected superiorly and medially to expose ...

When an injury to the leg results in swelling, dangerous muscle pressure levels can lead to acute or chronic compartment syndrome. This possibly may be due to a fracture or severe bruising.

Diagnosis is made by measuring the compartment pressures during exercise ... Finally other rarer causes of exercise induced leg pain are discussed, namely muscle hernia, popliteal artery entrapment ...

Chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) is an increasingly recognized cause of leg pain in soccer players ... Diagnosis can be confirmed by measuring the muscle pressures during activity.

We suggest (in cases of bilateral symptoms) that it is possible to investigate one limb only and to be able to safely conclude that a positive result indicates that CECS is present in the ...

Body mass index (BMI) is key method for measuring a person's weight status, and defining if they have normal weight, overweight, or obesity.