chronic exertional compartment syndrome there's compartment syndrome is where there's increased pressure inside the compartments of the leg there's an acute situation where we call acute compartment syndrome which happens if you break the tibia but there's also some people who run and during the Run they start to get some swelling of that of the leg and they even get some tingling and numbness and and it's because the muscles are in a very confined space so as you exercise the muscle gets fluid in it hypertrophies and people will develop those symptoms