Without it, you wouldn’t be able to flex or rotate your leg. The lumbar plexus has seven bundles of nerves, and the obturator nerve is the second most inferior, or lowest, nerve in this network.

The sural nerve is located at the back of your lower legs. It starts in your upper calf, stretches down the back of your outer leg, and passes through your ankle, ending in your toe.

The superficial peroneal nerve follows the perimeter of the fascia, between the leg’s anterior and lateral compartments. It pierces the fascia lata to emerge and then travels into the leg’s ...

Litigating Lower Extremity Nerve Injuries Many personal injuries involve damage to one or more of the nerves in the lower extremity. There are many technical medical terms that will arise in ...

Use of peripheral nerve stimulation may reduce pain scores and opioid consumption after lower limb amputation, according to results presented at the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine ...

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body that extends from the lower back all the way down the back of the leg, explains Rohan Desai, M.D., an orthopedic spine surgeon with the New York ...

Archive Peripheral Nerve Lesions in the Upper Extremity in Hemiplegic Patients Authors: Eugene Moskowitz, M.D., and James I. Porter, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published October 10, 1963 ...