Discover the important functions of your sural nerve in sensation and balance, plus how doctors use it to diagnose and treat conditions throughout the body.

Now a procedure called sural nerve grafting is gaining in popularity for its ability to make surgery a more sex-life-friendly choice. By taking a piece of the sural nerve--a long, straight stretch ...

The sural nerve provides sensation for the outer side of the foot and once it is removed, sensation will most likely be permanently lost, or possibly just altered, on the outer side of the foot.

Background: Sural nerve injuries are an evident risk especially of minimal-invasive surgical Achilles tendon repair. However, detailed anatomical studies focusing on the relationship of the sural ...

Dorsal sural nerve conduction testing is a moderately sensitive and very specific test for early detection of oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy and beats sural nerve testing.

This is a report on preliminary experience with cavernous nerve graft reconstruction using sural nerve grafts with radical prostatectomy or radical cystectomy.

A novel penile reinnervation technique using sural nerve grafts to bridge the femoral nerve and the dorsal penile nerve and corpus cavernosum has been described in BJU International. Researchers ...

The UAB team isolated RNA transcripts from the blood-nerve barrier forming microvessels directly from the frozen sural nerve tissue using a specialized technique called laser-capture microdissection.

What are the symptoms of Sural nerve entrapment? I am trying to find out what causes my ankle and toe pain - peroneal nerve decompression was done 3 months ago but I still have this excruciating pain ...

Current methods for repairing nerve injuries can be hit-and-miss. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk - from silkworms and spiders - to create a promising ...

Now a procedure called sural nerve grafting is gaining in popularity for its ability to make surgery a more sex-life-friendly choice.