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 nerve was ...

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 ...

Pressure on a sensory nerve can cause pain and paresthesia in the nerve's area of distribution. Entrapment of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel is the commonest example of this problem, but other ...

Newer equipment and improved ultrasound imaging make femoral nerve blocks a more viable choice for post-operative pain relief in total joint replacements, allowing patients to block pain just where it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of ultrasound guidance may provide reproducible femoral positioning of the anterolateral graft posterior and ...

Meralgia paresthetica (Bernhardt-Roth syndrome) is a neurological condition causing numbness, tingling, and sometimes pain in the outer thigh. This results from nerve compression and is usually not ...

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 ...

ACL reconstruction is a widely accepted treatment for patients who have instability symptoms from ACL deficiency and desire to resume activity. Surgical reconstruction may be appropriate, for many of ...

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 ...

The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is a branch of the lumbar plexus, exiting the spinal cord between the L2 and L3 vertebrae. It emerges at the lateral edge of the psoas muscle group, below the ...