For over a century, there have been medical descriptions of compartment syndrome. In 1881, Volkmann [3] first described the clinical findings of myonecrosis and contracture due to prolonged muscle ...

EAGAN, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks required hospitalization when he developed a condition called compartment syndrome following an injury on Sunday. Hicks, 31, had been a ...

The three major classifications are incipient compartment syndrome, acute compartment syndrome, and chronic compartment syndrome. Acute compartment syndrome is further divided into traumatic and ...