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Learn about the sural nerve, a sensory nerve that can be compressed in different locations causing pain in the calf, ankle, and foot. Find out how to diagnose and treat sural nerve entrapment with injections, surgery, or nerve grafts.
5 gru 2022 · Sural nerve entrapment is a rare clinical condition that occurs when the nerve is compressed or fixed. One of the most common causes is fascial thickening which occurs when the rigid anatomic fibrous arcade formed at the fascial opening becomes thickened and doubled.
Symptoms most commonly associated with irritation of the sural nerve include chronic (because the diagnosis is usually missed for a long time) pain in the posterior aspect of the leg, usually exacerbated with physical exertion.
Entrapment of the nerve could be caused by compression due to fascial thickening, while the symptomatology includes sensory alterations and deficits at the nerve distribution area. We report a cadaveric case of a variant sural nerve that presented a distinct entrapment site.
2 lis 2023 · Entrapment of the sural nerve is most often caused by fascial thickening at the site where the nerve becomes superficial to the gastrocnemius, called the superficial sural aponeurosis. A patient with sural nerve entrapment will present with sensory changes in the area the nerve innervates.
Your sural nerve is one of the most commonly affected nerves by this condition. Sural nerve entrapment ( pinched nerve ): This condition occurs when nearby tissue thickens and presses on your nerve. Entrapment causes sural nerve pain.
11 lis 2024 · Sural nerve entrapment in gastrocnemius muscle—A case report. Article. Full-text available. Jan 2007; Bincy M George; Satheesha Nayak B; Although the sural nerve is the most extensively studied ...
