Chronic Pain and Entrapment Neuropathy
Neuropathic pain treatment can help you find long-awaited relief.
What is Entrapment Neuropathy?
Peripheral nerves in the lower extremity run through tunnels and fascial planes. Nerves can become injured from trauma, repetitive use, or abnormal biomechanics. Nerves can also become chronically inflamed form an underlying medical condition. Injured or chronically inflamed nerves can become symptomatic when they pass through these tunnels and fascial planes and cause chronic pain.
Common Sites for Nerve Entrapment Below the Knee
- Common peroneal (fibular) nerve
- Tibial nerve in the leg (soleal sling)
- Tibial at ankle (tarsal tunnel syndrome)
- Superficial peroneal (fibular) nerve
- Deep peroneal (fibular) nerve
- Interdigital nerves in the forefoot (Morton’s neuroma)
Nerve Entrapments in the Setting of Systemic Neuropathy
When a systemic medical condition contributes significantly to symptoms, treatment should prioritize first optimizing treatment of the underlying medical condition. This should be done in collaboration with primary care physicians.
Patients can have a structural entrapment in addition to their sensory neuropathy. When mechanical compression remains the dominant cause of pain, surgical intervention may offer substantial relief to that portion of the lower extremity pain.
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