Acute exercise-induced compartment syndrome of the lower leg: A case report

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 288-290

  Shah, Nilesh ^a  

^a SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; ICE;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BREATHING; CAPILLARY FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ERYTHEMA; EXERCISE; FASCIOTOMY; FIBULA; FIRE FIGHTER; HOME; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INTERVIEW; KNEE; LEG DISEASE; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LOWER LEG; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MEDIAL TIBIAL STRESS SYNDROME; MUSCLE TISSUE; OPERATING ROOM; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PATELLA TENDON; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PULSE RATE; RANGE OF MOTION; RECOVERY ROOM; RUNNING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SPLINT; SUTURE REMOVAL; TIBIA; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; TOE; UNITED STATES; URINE COLOR; WALKING DIFFICULTY; LEG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE;

EID: 75549086812     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181c22755     Document Type: Article

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