The tarsals are the long bones of the foot. Just below the bony bit on the inside of the ankle (medial malleolus) is a passage where two nerves run. These nerves are called the medial and lateral ...

This week we are going to discuss a rather complex condition that has been simplified to the point of being nondiagnostic—the medial heel pain syndrome. Heel pain is a very common condition in the ...

Running through the infratemporal fossa is the lingual nerve (i.e. the third branch of the posterior trunk of the mandibular nerve). Due to its location, there are various anatomic structures that ...

The concern with the cervical herniated disk and the popular whiplash injury as a source of pain in the upper extremity may exclude consideration of a more distal origin of such pain. It is the ...

Compression of the ulnar nerve causes ulnar nerve entrapment syndrome to occur. The ulnar nerve is one of the principal nerves of the upper limb. It has a long course from the neck down into the hand, ...

We postulate an iatrogenic cause for snapping of the medial head of the triceps. A patient whose ulnar nerve and triceps did not dislocate over the medial epicondyle preoperatively had snapping of a ...

A 32-year-old female weightlifter presented a 15-month history of painful dysesthesias in the ulnar aspect of the ring digit and the small digit, worse with elbow flexion. Examination revealed mild ...

Facet joints, or zygapophyseal joints, are true synovial joints in the spine that have been identified as potential pain generators. Medial branch blocks involve the injection of a local anesthetic ...

This week we are going to discuss a very common and very uncomfortable condition of the elbow that can affect the wrist and hand as well as the arm—the ulnar nerve entrapment of the elbow. Patients ...