ABSTRACT
There are three options of treatment for patients with chronic compartment syndrome. The Þrst is to adjust the activity to a level that is pain-free. Second, patients may try other nonsurgical treatments like nonsteroid antiinßammatory drugs, diuretic treatment, massage, and physical therapy.1 These treatments have not been successful. Third, surgical decompression by fasciotomy has been shown to give good results in most patients.2–6
Bear in mind that patients may have two or more leg diseases simultaneously. Successful treatment of one disease may not lead to full recovery, because a second disease is left undiagnosed and untreated. Usually, patients with multiple locations of leg pain do not have chronic compartment syndrome. Also, leg pain in patients with disseminated chronic musculoskeletal pain is not indicative of chronic compartment syndrome.
