The sural nerve is a cutaneous nerve: a nerve that transmits sensation to the skin. The sural nerve is located beneath the skin at the back of the calf of each leg. The sural nerve provides ...

The femoral nerve helps your leg move and gives sensation to the front ... is a type of femoral nerve dysfunction that affects the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. This portion of the femoral ...

Sometimes, outside forces pressing on the leg and knee can lead to numbness ... cuts off a person’s circulation or presses on a cutaneous nerve, numbness can result. A person can also experience ...

Nerve entrapments in the hip and pelvic area can all affect the sciatic, pudendal, obturator, femoral, and lateral femoral cutaneous nerves ... face up, with legs out straight.

Meralgia paresthetica involves the compression of a nerve in the upper leg. This causes tingling ... of or injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous (LFC) nerve. This nerve runs from the spine ...

Background To define the sites where the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) is more easily visualized and to describe the anatomical variations of the LFCN. Methods A total of 240 LFCNs in 120 ...

Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve entrapment or meralgia paresthetica is a tingling numbness and burning pain of the lateral thigh that is caused by entrapment of the sensory nerve of the lateral ...

Four months ago, I was diagnosed with meralgia paresthetica, a compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. I believe this occurred when I did a leg press on an exercise machine that had ...

who both had 2 years of neuromuscular ultrasound experience) were trained by J.A to perform the ultrasound examination procedure for inspecting the LFCN, and the time taken to identify the nerve ...