Data on Compartment Syndrome Published by B. Steinberg and Colleagues.(Clinical report)

Current study results from the report, 'Quantitative muscle hardness as a noninvasive means for detecting patients at risk of compartment syndromes,' have been published. "The purpose of this project was to study the efficacy of quantitative muscle hardness (QH) curve analysis for noninvasive measurement of muscle compartment interstitial pressure (IMP), and to eliminate the need for a comparison normal QH measurement to determine a pathologic reading. Elevation of IMP may lead to limb compartment syndrome, which may result in irreversible dysfunction, chronic pain and contracture," researchers in Jacksonville, United States report (see also Compartment Syndrome).

"Two studies …