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 ...

This week we are going discuss another obscure nerve compression syndrome, this time of the leg—meralgia paresthetica. Meralgia paresthetica is also known as lateral femoral cutaneous nerve ...

Injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (Bernhardt's syndrome) or meralgia paresthetica occurs after harvest of the bone from the anterior iliac crest. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is a ...

Our study suggested an easier method for identifying the LFCN in volunteers using the ultrasound technique. There have been several reports about the ultrasonographic appearance of the LFCN. [10–17] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Femoral neuropathy, also called femoral nerve dysfunction, is one possible cause of movement and sensation problems in the legs. Femoral neuropathy occurs when something affects the femoral nerve, ...

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 ...

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 ...