The lower leg lies between the knee and ankle and works with the upper leg and foot to help perform key functions. In the leg are a number of bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels.

Branches run to 21 muscles in your legs in addition to extending sensory fibers down your leg. Motor nerves. Your tibial nerve helps you extend your hip, flex your knee and ankle, and rotate your ...

Lumbar Spine and Shooting Leg Pain. The lumbar spine is a segment of the vertebral column. It's responsible, in large part, for supporting the upper body and holding you in a standing up position.

The sciatic nerve originates from the spinal nerves L4, L5, S1, S2, and S3. Your sciatic nerve extends lower than your vertebrae, and all these nerve fibers join and make the sciatic nerve.

The nerves affected may be "sensory," basically mediating cutaneous sensation; "motor" primarily mediating muscle impulses and connective-tissue sensation; or "mixed," combinations of the two.

The pilot trial in three adults with SMA showed that epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS), which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally ...

People with peripheral neuropathy may sustain damage to the motor, sensory, or autonomic nerves. Damaged motor nerves can ...

Tiger Woods had yet another surgery on his lower back Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. Skip to content ...

Tiger Woods had yet another surgery on his lower back on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year.