The sural nerve is located beneath the skin at the back of the calf of each leg. The sural nerve provides sensation to the outer part of your foot, heel, and ankle, as well as the back of your leg ...

Nerve blockade. Anesthesia is injected into your thigh at the point where your LFCN is likely to be compressed. If you have meralgia paresthetica, the pain will temporarily go away.

A top NYC weight-loss doctor shared the surprising skin complication that he’s encountered in patients using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic.

A dermatome is a distinct area of your skin defined by its connection to one of 30 spinal nerves. We’ll explore more about both your spinal nerves and dermatomes, including a chart showing each ...

Burning to be thin? Dr. Daniel Rosen, a NYC-based surgeon and weight-loss doctor, has taken to TikTok to share the unusual complication he has observed in patients using GLP-1 drugs. “Something ...

Learn about the symptoms and treatment for a pinched nerve in the ... pudendal, obturator, femoral, and lateral femoral cutaneous nerves. This article looks at identifying a ... Back injury: This ...

Skin sensation may be altered in a neuropathy of a "sensory" nerve. Motor-nerve involvement, of sufficient duration and severity, will result in muscular atrophy and weakness.

Something irritates your skin, nerves send an “itch” signal to your brain, you scratch, problem solved. But your body’s itch detection system is surprisingly complex and easily confused.

All 120 subjects were Chinese (72 (60%) were male) with a mean age of 41.4 ± 21.3 years (range 18–76), a mean height of 173 cm, a mean weight of 71.1 kg, and a mean BMI of 24.9 ±4.1. Each ...

Within a cohort of 55 patients who were treated from 1996 to 2011 with confirmed PNS from a cutaneous malignancy, six patients with ipsilateral cranial nerve PNS and subsequent contralateral PNS were ...

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 ...