![]() The more common form of compartment syndrome is seen in athletes who exercise heavily and is called chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS). Acute compartment syndrome requires immediate surgical attention or the individual may develop permanent deformity and disability in the leg and foot. The result may be a loss of pulse and blood supply to the foot, loss of nerve function to the foot, and severe pain. The increased pressure inside the muscle compartment can become so high that it clamps down on the arteries and nerves going through the leg into the foot. Blood rushing into the muscle compartment has no way to escape, causing a relatively sudden rise in the pressure in the muscle compartment. Acute compartment syndrome is caused by direct trauma to the lower leg, such as that occurs during a motor vehicle accident where possibly one of the leg bones is broken. Each of the four muscle compartments contain at least two individual muscles, which are surrounded by the fibrous sheath which wraps around the muscles of the compartment.īecause of the arrangement of the muscles of the lower leg into four compartments, an individual can develop two types of compartment syndrome: acute and chronic. anterior compartment) and one on the outside of the lower leg (i.e. posterior compartments), one on the front of the lower leg (i.e. There are four muscle compartments in the lower leg: two in the back of the lower leg (i.e. ![]() Just like an orange or grapefruit, where the fruit is divided by fibrous sheaths into identifiable sections, the muscles of the lower leg are also divided by fibrous sheaths into identifiable muscle compartments. ![]() Each of the muscles in the lower leg are contained in what is called a muscle compartment. ![]()
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