Mechanical calf pain in a 23-year-old male due to dynamic functional entrapment of the popliteal artery

i It eased within a few minutes of stopping the aggravating activity and the patient did not need to sit down or stoop to relieve the symptoms. The subjective history revealed no overt red flag signs. Both past medical and family history revealed nothing of cal therapists to consider the vascular system as a source of otential pain syndromes [1]. In 1997, Abraham et al. [2] described a ‘revolution’ in he diagnosis of exercise-induced leg pain in young athletes. his involves the use of standardised arterial examination nd appropriate exercise testing, coupled with awareness that ascular pathology can indeed affect young patients. This ase report details a young active patient complaining of uniateral calf pain who was referred to a physiotherapy clinic here he was diagnosed by the physiotherapist with popliteal rtery entrapment syndrome. The report describes the aetiolgy of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, clinical presenation, examination and assessment procedures, and discusses he appropriate intervention in this commonly misdiagnosed ause of exercise-induced leg pain.