Femoral neuropathy, or femoral nerve dysfunction, occurs when you can’t move or feel part of your leg because of damaged nerves, specifically the femoral nerve. This can result from an injury, ...

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 aspect ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity, 1 it was decided to review these conditions in the lower extremity. An entrapment point ...

An orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia reported success using a mini-open anterior surgical technique he developed for managing femoroacetabular hip impingement, a cause of early arthritis in young ...

Our CT based analysis of post-operative Femoral Tilt (FT) in cementless femoral stems revealed a considerable variability and maximum FT values up to 10.2°. We found no significant difference between ...

Recently, I have been diagnosed with the condition of meralgia paresthetica. I will periodically get bolts of pain that feels like I’m walking with a sprained ankle. At first it was all a mystery as ...

Background Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has been stated as one of the main causes of early osteoarthritis in the hip. This is particularly important in young athletes. However, there are no data ...

1 Sports Medicine Department, The Hague Medical Centre, Antoniushove Hospital, Leidschendam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Sports Medicine, Rijnland Hospital, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands 3 ...