To identify relationships between lower extremity innervation and level of injury, mechanism of injury, and age at injury in a pediatric population with spinal cord injury (SCI). Secondarily, ...

The obturator nerve is a large, multibranched nerve that travels through your pelvis to your inner thigh. This nerve helps you feel sensations like temperature and pain in your lower limbs. It also ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Among patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy who also had a compressed nerve behind the knee and were in pain despite medical therapies, those who had nerve-decompression surgery had ...

Occasional leg cramps are considered common and usually harmless, especially after physical exertion, dehydration, or ...

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb just by thinking about moving it - all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his ...

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb just by thinking about moving it — all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his ...

After losing a lower leg, Savo Panic received a prosthetic limb that helped restore movement. But prostheses are imperfect, and he suffered tremendous "phantom" leg pain. Now, European scientists say ...