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Compartment Pressure Testing
This modality is extremely helpful in differentiating chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) from other causes of chronic lower leg pain. It is also useful in investigating chronic forearm and upper arm pain.
Testing is carried out using the Stryker Intercompartmental Monitoring System™.
This involves a small catheter inserted under local anaesthetic into the compartment to be examined. Pressure is measured at baseline -prior to exercise- and the patient exercises to the point of symptom onset. Pressure measurement is repeated while symptoms persist up to 5 minutes after cessation of activity.