Thigh on Fire Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy
Title:
Thigh on Fire: Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy
Word Count:
859
Summary:
When the outer side of a thigh becomes numb and there are burning, stinging or other painful s
Keywords:
lateral femoral cutaneous,neuropathy,meralgia,sigmund freud,thigh,numb,pregnancy,obesity,emg,e
Article Body:
At the age of 32 Sigmund Freud developed a new problem. Pricking and other unpleasant sensatio
Seven years later in 1895, when Freud wrote up his self-observations for a German medical jour
When Freud squeezed a fold of skin in this area, it hurt more than it did in his left thigh. A
Freud´s physician, Josef Breuer, found that the affected skin was in the territory of the late
Our understanding of this disorder has changed little in the 110 years since Freud wrote his r
To set the record straight, Freud and Breuer were not the first to recognize this condition. M
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is formed in the lower back from branches of the second an
The course of the nerve can vary from person to person and even from side to side in the same
Pressure within the pelvis, as from pregnancy, obesity and (rarely) tumors, can injure the por
The nerve can also be injured during a wide variety of surgical procedures, including orthoped
Diagnosis of this condition is usually made from the history and the physical examination, wit
Treatment of meralgia paresthetica has not been studied by the gold-standard method of randomi
While awaiting a favorable outcome, symptoms can be managed with skin-patches containing a loc
(C) 2005 by Gary Cordingley
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Thigh on Fire: Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy
Word Count:
859
Summary:
When the outer side of a thigh becomes numb and there are burning, stinging or other painful s
Keywords:
lateral femoral cutaneous,neuropathy,meralgia,sigmund freud,thigh,numb,pregnancy,obesity,emg,e
Article Body:
At the age of 32 Sigmund Freud developed a new problem. Pricking and other unpleasant sensatio
Seven years later in 1895, when Freud wrote up his self-observations for a German medical jour
When Freud squeezed a fold of skin in this area, it hurt more than it did in his left thigh. A
Freud´s physician, Josef Breuer, found that the affected skin was in the territory of the late
Our understanding of this disorder has changed little in the 110 years since Freud wrote his r
To set the record straight, Freud and Breuer were not the first to recognize this condition. M
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is formed in the lower back from branches of the second an
The course of the nerve can vary from person to person and even from side to side in the same
Pressure within the pelvis, as from pregnancy, obesity and (rarely) tumors, can injure the por
The nerve can also be injured during a wide variety of surgical procedures, including orthoped
Diagnosis of this condition is usually made from the history and the physical examination, wit
Treatment of meralgia paresthetica has not been studied by the gold-standard method of randomi
While awaiting a favorable outcome, symptoms can be managed with skin-patches containing a loc
(C) 2005 by Gary Cordingley
This is a demo version of txt2pdf v.10.1
Developed by SANFACE Software http://www.sanface.com/
Available at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html