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Erschienen in: Die Unfallchirurgie 1/2020

16.04.2019 | Leitthema

Chronic lower leg pain: entrapment of common peroneal nerve or tibial nerve

verfasst von: Aniek van Zantvoort, Maikel Setz, Adwin Hoogeveen, Percy van Eerten, Dr. Marc Scheltinga

Erschienen in: Die Unfallchirurgie | Sonderheft 1/2020

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Abstract

Young individuals with chronic exercise-induced lower leg pain (ELP) who have normal compartmental muscle pressures and normal imaging occasionally suffer from a nerve entrapment syndrome. These patients have consistently undergone a variety of diagnostic tests and often futile therapies prior to arriving at the correct diagnosis. Awareness among traumatologists regarding these nerve entities is low. A lower leg discomfort that is frequently present at night but worsens during exercise combined with altered foot skin sensations suggests an entrapment of the common peroneal or tibial nerve. If conservative therapies fail, neurolysis is advised.
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Metadaten
Titel
Chronic lower leg pain: entrapment of common peroneal nerve or tibial nerve
verfasst von
Aniek van Zantvoort
Maikel Setz
Adwin Hoogeveen
Percy van Eerten
Dr. Marc Scheltinga
Publikationsdatum
16.04.2019
Verlag
Springer Medizin
Erschienen in
Die Unfallchirurgie / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2020
Print ISSN: 2731-7021
Elektronische ISSN: 2731-703X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00113-019-0645-5

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