What Are The Symptoms And Complications Of Compartment Syndrome?

Greater Pain Than Expected For The Injury

A characteristic symptom that occurs in compartment syndrome patients is the feeling of greater pain than expected for the injury they have incurred. The injury that causes compartment syndrome can be blunt force or penetrating trauma. The injury can occur to the organs, muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other connective tissues inside the fascia. While almost any type of injury causes an inflicted individual to feel the sensation of pain, there is a reasonable threshold expected for different types of injuries. An individual with compartment syndrome precipitated from any sort of injury will feel pain as a result of the injury itself, pain from the inflammatory response their body has to the injury, and pain from the compression of the nerves that occurs from compartment syndrome. Severe compartment syndrome can cause an increased degree of pain in a patient when the nerves are not only compressed but when the nerves become damaged as well.

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