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Dubious · 02-26-2010, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilbyfree

Okay, to me that sounds like the sural nerve. That is somewhat like the sciatic nerve, it is one that you do not want to mess with. Just a guess. Do you have any pain on the inside of your knee, and what about your calf?

Keep in mind, my doctor would have never attempted to go in and fix the tibial nerve, only by chance that I had all of these other problems did he concede that I had nothing to lose.

If it matters, the posterior tibial nerve has three main branches; the deep plantar nerve, superficial plantar nerve and calcaneal branch. It is mostly motor. Sural and saphenous are cutaneous sensory nerves for the inside and outside of the foot, respectively. The clinical "tapping" test, when positive (distal or proximal radiation), is call a Tinel's sign and is significant for tarsal tunnel syndrome that can affect any of the three plantar divisions of the posterior tibial nerve.

Just a Friday night tidbit of amusmement...

bobber · 02-26-2010, 08:55 PM

wilbyfree
The sural nerve and calcaneal are two different nerves,they both run into the foot,,the calcaneal runs down the back of the heel then drapes both sides of the outer sides of the heel like little fingers,,,thats where it ends,,my entrapment is right about where the nerve stops to branch off to both sides of the heel { located at the back of the heel about an inch or little less from the ground upon standing}

Wilbyfree · 02-27-2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Dubious

Going from straight memory here, but that is my recollection too. Symptoms are the same, just no history of nerve injury with type I. I think I recall reading that CRPS II has a tendancy towards SMP where CRPS I has a tendancy more for SIP.

BTW, for the history buffs, you can can find on Google books an online read of the book that the civil war surgeon who discovered causalgia, can't recall his name, which is very interesting!

Wier Mitchell is his name and yes he has some excellent philosophies, but never a cure. Do read though, it is interesting.

Jeanie

Dubious · 02-28-2010, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Wilbyfree

Wier Mitchell is his name and yes he has some excellent philosophies, but never a cure. Do read though, it is interesting.

Jeanie

Hi,

I thought so too. Not so much that he had much to offer towards cures at least in the late 1800's as it relates to us, but more from the pure real-time discovery by a war-time field surgeon describing what later became CRPS II, a penetrating injury to a nerve! Reading his material doesn't offer anything prospectively as such, but does provide an unbeleivably intersting window into the past discovery of CRPS II, then termed causalgia by it's founder, as it was first described.

I don't know, I guess I found this justly revealing!

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