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Too-Tight Skinny Jeans May Lead To Injury

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Too-Tight Skinny Jeans May Lead To Injury

Trending News: If You Ever Needed A Reason To Avoid Skinny Jeans, This Is It

Why Is This Important?

Because some people won’t stop doing dumb things until they have a medical incentive.

Long Story Short

A study of one woman found immobilized on a sidewalk found that her tight skinny jeans were the culprit behind her temporary paralysis. The tight pants reduced blood circulation, which in turn led to temporary nerve damage.

Long Story

Skinny jeans can really ruin your day, and not just in the sense of what will happen to your love life when your intended finds them in your closet. According to a the study of one fashion victim published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, wearing skinny jeans can cause legitimate muscle and nerve damage.

One intrepid Australian woman decided that if she was going to waste an afternoon helping a friend move, she was at least going to look fierce as hell doing so. She threw on her favorites skinnies, and after several hours of schlepping boxes and furniture, she attempted to walk home and quickly collapsed on the sidewalk, effectively paralyzed from the knees down.

Someone eventually found the woman and rushed her to the hospital, where the jeans had to be cut off due to extreme swelling in her calves. Doctors said muscles can normally expand to accommodate swelling, but the jeans prevented this, and instead her muscles had to expand inward, compressing blood vessels and impairing nerve function.

The woman eventually gained use of her feet and toes, but not until after four days in the hospital. In a way, her collapse was a blessing - if she had made it home, the outcome could have been much worse.

"If she hadn't been able to come to the hospital, the compression could have gone on longer and caused residual nerve damage," said Dr. Thomas Kimber, who treated the patient. "We blame what happened on a combination of prolonged squatting for hours and the tight jeans she was wearing."

(This marks the first time in history when someone could actually blame what happened to a woman on what she was wearing.)

Skinny jeans are primarily women’s territory, but plenty of guys like to show their bleeding-edgedness by showing off their bulge, as well. The moral of the story is to not wear skinny jeans if you plan to catcher for your beer league softball team. Or, y’know, ever - let the ladies have something they can call their own.

Own The Conversation

Ask The Big Question: How could someone have experienced that much nerve damage and not known something was wrong?

Disrupt Your Feed: I like when my girlfriend wears tight jeans, but I like that she can walk, too. Hmm…

Drop This Fact: Though hard to trace, skinny jeans are believed to have caught on with men in the early 2000s, when men who worked hard to achieve lean physiques wanted a way to show them off.

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