enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Meralgia paraesthetica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meralgia_paraesthetica

    Meralgia paresthetica or meralgia paraesthetica is pain or abnormal sensations in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve which provides sensation to the lateral thigh. Meralgia paresthetica is a specific instance of nerve entrapment. [5] The nerve involved is the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN).

  3. Lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_cutaneous_nerve_of...

    This causes meralgia paraesthetica (Bernhardt-Roth syndrome). [2] [5] This may be diagnosed with ultrasound, which changes the morphology of the nerve. [1] Changes can include general enlargement, [1] and a hypoechoic appearance. [3]

  4. Paresthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paresthesia

    Paresthesias of the hands, feet, legs, and arms are common transient symptoms. The briefest electric shock type of paresthesia can be caused by tweaking the ulnar nerve near the elbow; this phenomenon is colloquially known as bumping one's "funny bone". Similar brief shocks can be experienced when any other nerve is tweaked (e.g. a pinched neck ...

  5. File:The New National Health Service Leaflet 1948.pdf

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_National...

    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 13:17, 15 September 2014: 772 × 1,214, 4 pages (425 KB): Djr13: remake PDF to crop blank areas: 18:02, 1 December 2012

  6. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of...

    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  7. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannock_Device

    The modern Brannock device takes three measurements of each foot: Foot length the length from heel to the tip of the longest toe (in increments of barleycorns) Arch length the length from heel to the inside of the ball of the foot, or medial metatarsophalangeal joint Width the width of the foot perpendicular to the length

  8. Unequal leg length - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_leg_length

    X-rays for leg length measurement.. Unequal leg length in children is frequently first suspected by parents noticing a limp that appears to be getting worse. [3] The standard workup in children is a thorough physical examination, including observing the child while walking and running. [3]

  9. Complex regional pain syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_regional_pain_syndrome

    Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS Type 1 and Type 2), sometimes referred to by the hyponyms Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Reflex Neurovascular Dystrophy (RND), is a rare and severe form of neuroinflammatory and dysautonomic disorder causing chronic pain, neurovascular, and neuropathic symptoms.