enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: lower leg skin pain sensitivity to touch base of ankle bone treatment

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cutaneous innervation of the lower limbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous_innervation_of...

    Lower limb. Foot. Cutaneous innervation of the lower limbs is the nerve supply to areas of the skin of the lower limbs (including the feet) which are supplied by specific cutaneous nerves . Modern texts are in agreement about which areas of the skin are served by which nerves, but there are minor variations in some of the details.

  3. Hyperalgesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperalgesia

    Hyperalgesia. Hyperalgesia ( / ˌhaɪpərælˈdʒiːziə / or /- siə /; 'hyper' from Greek ὑπέρ (huper, “over”), '-algesia' from Greek algos, ἄλγος (pain)) is an abnormally increased sensitivity to pain, which may be caused by damage to nociceptors or peripheral nerves and can cause hypersensitivity to stimulus.

  4. Medial sural cutaneous nerve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_sural_cutaneous_nerve

    The medial sural cutaneous nerve originates from the posterior aspect of the tibial nerve of the sciatic nerve. [2] [3] It descends between the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle. [2] [3] Around the middle of the back of the leg, it pierces the deep fascia to become superficial. [3] It unites with the lateral sural cutaneous nerve to form ...

  5. Pallesthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallesthesia

    Pallesthesia (\ˌpal-es-ˈthē-zh (ē-)ə\), or vibratory sensation, is the ability to perceive vibration. [ 1][ 2] This sensation, often conducted through skin and bone, is usually generated by mechanoreceptors such as Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel disk receptors, and tactile corpuscles. [ 1] All of these receptors stimulate an action potential ...

  6. Complex regional pain syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_regional_pain_syndrome

    Complex regional pain syndrome is a multifactorial disorder with clinical features of neurogenic inflammation (inflammation mediated by nerve cells), nociceptive sensitisation (which causes extreme sensitivity or allodynia), vasomotor dysfunction (blood flow problems which cause swelling and discolouration) and maladaptive neuroplasticity ...

  7. Dysesthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysesthesia

    Dysesthesia is an unpleasant, abnormal sense of touch. Its etymology comes from the Greek word "dys," meaning "bad," and "aesthesis," which means "sensation" (abnormal sensation). It often presents as pain [ 1] but may also present as an inappropriate, but not discomforting, sensation. It is caused by lesions of the nervous system, peripheral ...

  8. Tarsal tunnel syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsal_tunnel_syndrome

    Tarsal tunnel syndrome ( TTS) is a nerve compression syndrome or nerve entrapment syndrome causing a painful foot condition in which the tibial nerve is entrapped as it travels through the tarsal tunnel. [ 1][ 2] The tarsal tunnel is found along the inner leg behind the medial malleolus (bump on the inside of the ankle).

  9. Enthesitis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthesitis

    Enthesitis. Typical joint showing the entheses. Specialty. Rheumatology. Enthesitis is inflammation of the entheses (singular: enthesis)), the sites where tendons, ligaments and joint capsules attach to bones. [ 1][ 2] It is a type of enthesopathy, meaning any pathologic condition of the entheses, with or without inflammation.

  1. Ads

    related to: lower leg skin pain sensitivity to touch base of ankle bone treatment