Sentences with phrase «cutaneous nerve»

The condition is caused by compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, which supplies sensation to your upper leg.

Meralgia paresthetica occurs when the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve — which supplies sensation to the surface of your outer thigh — becomes compressed, or pinched.

But in meralgia paresthetica, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve becomes trapped — often under the inguinal ligament, which runs along your groin from your abdomen to your upper thigh.

This is known as Tingling Thigh Syndrome - a compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, which runs across the outside of your thigh.

Polydefkis, also director of the Cutaneous Nerve Lab at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, says that patients with transthyretin amyloidosis typically have traditional symptoms of nerve damage, known as neuropathy, such as numbness or burning in the feet.