What Is Your Sural Nerve? - Cleveland Clinic
Jan 18, 2022 · Your sural nerve is just below your skin’s surface in the back of your lower leg (calf). It enables you to detect foot position and sensations, including touch, temperature and pain. Your sural nerve can help diagnose and treat complex nerve issues.
Diagnosing and Treating Sural Nerve Problems
Your sural nerve runs down the back of your leg, behind the outside edge of your ankle and down the outside of your foot. It provides sensation to those areas and to your two outside toes, and problems can occur if the nerve is irritated or damaged.
Sural Nerve: Function, Location, Health Problems, and More - WebMD
The sural nerve provides sensation to the back of the lower leg, including the calf, outer ankle, heel, and toes. The sural nerve aids in foot placement and balance by sensing pain,...
Sural Nerve Pain | Ease your Sural Nerve Pain - James McCormack
Jun 17, 2023 · When the sural nerve becomes inflamed, it is called Sural Neuritis, which often results in a burning pain in the lateral shin or the lateral foot (foot sural nerve pain). Patients often describe their pain as constant pain that can be made …
Sural Neuritis: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options
Jun 11, 2024 · Sural neuritis, also known as sural neuralgia, is a painful disorder caused by irritation or damage to the sural nerve. The most common description of the pain is a burning feeling on the outside of the foot and ankle.
Sural Nerve - Physiopedia
Symptoms most commonly associated with irritation of the sural nerve include chronic (because the diagnosis is usually missed for a long time) pain in the posterior aspect of the leg, usually exacerbated with physical exertion.
Sural nerve: origin, course and function - Kenhub
Dec 5, 2022 · The symptoms usually include burning sural pain in the posterior aspect of the leg (often radiating pain in the distal foot), and abnormal nerve sensations (hypesthesia, dysaesthesia, or paraesthesia).
How To Diagnose And Treat Sural Nerve Problems
If you are dealing with nerve pain, numbness or sensation issues in your ankle and foot, reach out to Dr. Silverman to learn how he can help you find relief from sural nerve problems. For more information, contact his office today at (952) 224-8500.
Anatomy, Bony Pelvis and Lower Limb: Sural Nerve
Nov 2, 2023 · For surgeries involving the foot and ankle, the surgeon may use a sural nerve block as an adjunct to general anesthesia. It is relatively easy to perform as the nerve lies very superficial at the ankle and is locatable using anatomical landmarks, though ultrasound guidance is also an option.
Treating Sural Nerve and Lower Leg Pain | Dr. Lance Silverman
Your sural nerve has a somewhat complex arrangement in your lower body, and if it becomes damaged, it can lead to painful sensations in your feet and lower leg. In today’s blog, we take a closer look at the sural nerve and how we work to treat sural nerve issues in our patients.