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Nerve Pain Diagnosis
Explore the Nerve Disorders in Detail.
Piriformis Syndrome Thorasic Outlet Syndrome Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Brachial Plexus Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Nerve Trauma Entrapment Nerve Tumor Sciatic Nerve
Piriformis Syndrome
Piriformis Syndrome is more pervasive than many physicians realize. For example, in the United States each year, 1.5 million people have lumbar MRI scans to look for the cause of the buttock and leg pain called “sciatica.”
Yet more than 1.2 million of those scans fail to find the cause in the spine. Three hundred thousand of the scans are sufficiently positive that the patient has lumbar spine surgery. And of the 300,000 surgeries, as many as 25% fail to relieve the pain — in many cases because the diagnosis of a spinal cause for the sciatica was incorrect.
Piriformis syndrome also causes sciatica. Its treatment is much less invasive and severe than the treatment of herniated lumbar disks. However, many doctors never consider piriformis syndrome as a possible diagnosis. Many physicians who are aware of it are uncertain how to properly diagnose and treat it.
Dr. Aaron Filler credits the advent of MR Neurography and Open MR injection techniques with new large-scale outcome as leading to the successful diagnosis and treatment of many more sciatica sufferers.
Thorasic Outlet Syndrome
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Brachial Plexus
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Pudendal Nerve Entrapment
Symptoms: Pain or numbness involving the area between the legs, including the genitals and occasionally some of the inside of the thigh. Often only one side is affected. The pain may be aggravated by sitting.
Diagnosis: The diagnosis is based on matching the affected area to the areas supplied by the Pudendal nerve. MR Neurography imaging can identify entrapments. Injections can confirm the diagnosis and can help.
What causes the problem? There are four common sites of nerve entrapment that can cause a pudendal nerve syndrome. The nerve may be entrapped as it:
passes under the piriformis muscle crosses the sacrospinous ligament and dives under the sacrotuberous ligament travels across the obturator foramen within the Alcox canal upon exit from Alcox canal and branching in the perineal area (between the legs) Another cause is entrapment or irritation of the Impar ganglion on the internal surface of the coccyx.
Nerve Trauma, Entrapment and RSD
A nerve entrapment is caused when a peripheral nerve loses mobility, flexibility, or becomes compressed by surrounding tissues. A nerve entrapment can cause neuropathic / neurogenic pain that can be either acute or chronic in nature.
Entrapment neuropathies occur within peripheral nerves and is typically characterized by pain and/or loss of function (motor and/or sensory) of the nerves as a result of chronic compression. To adequately diagnose a nerve entrapment, it is important to know the neural pathways and areas of responsibility of the peripheral nerves.
Nerve entrapment syndromes can result from a chronic injury to a nerve as it travels through an osseoligamentous tunnel; the compression is typically between the ligamentous canal and adjacent bony surfaces.
In cases of nerve entrapment, at least one portion of the compressive surface is mobile. This results in either a repetitive “slapping” insult or a “rubbing/sliding” compression against sharp or tight edges, with motion at the adjacent joint, resulting in a chronic injury. Immobilization of the nerve with a splint or lifestyle adjustments may therefore resolve the symptoms. Entrapment neuropathies can also be caused by systemic disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, pregnancy, acromegaly, or hypothyroidism.
Nerve Tumor
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Sciatic Nerve
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