A new report published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, wearing skinny jeans is not good for health. If you wear skinny jeans and spend the day in a squatting position then it may cause severe never damage to your lower legs.

In the report, doctors have shared a case of a 35-year-old woman who was unable to move her legs after spending a day in skinny jeans and helping a relative move in which she squatted for hours as she emptied closets.

Lead researcher, Thomas Kinder, of the Neurology Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia, said that the woman affirmed that her jeans were a bit sung when she wore them in the morning. After completing the work when she was walking home, she felt numbness in her feet and tripped and fell.

She remained immobilized for hours and was later taken to the hospital. When doctors examined her legs, they were swollen to such an extent that doctors have to cut the jeans. Kinder said that she was treated with intravenous fluids and after four days, she was able to move her legs normally.

Kinder affirmed that combination of squatting and tight jeans caused the problem. Prolonged squatting can lead to compression of peroneal nerves and they are also known to reduce blood supply to the calf muscles.

In the woman’s case, the muscles swelled inwards and compressed another set of nerves called the tibial nerves as she was wearing skinny jeans. “If the woman had been wearing loose trousers, the calf muscles could have swollen ‘outwards’ rather than ‘inwards,’ thus avoiding pressure on the nerves and blood vessels”, said Kinder.