Thigh compartment syndrome is uncommon and may go unrecognized. Signs and symptoms include a history of thigh swelling and/or hematoma and pain after minor injury in a patient who is anticoagulated.

Rather than occurring after a specific injury, chronic compartment syndrome generally develops with exertion. The symptoms tend to subside with rest. Unlike acute compartment syndrome, this ...

Indeed, in many cases, if the associated pathology is treated, symptoms of CECS will defervesce and the surgical release of the pressure positive, exertional compartment syndrome can become ...

It involves getting patients to reproduce their symptoms of exercise-related pain ... damage to neurovascular structures and the development of an acute compartment syndrome necessitating emergency ...