What are the signs and symptoms of obturator nerve entrapment?
What are the signs and symptoms of obturator nerve entrapment? What are the symptoms of obturator nerve entrapment?reduced range of movement.swelling/inflamation.stiffness.weakness.numbness.spasm. What causes obturator nerve entrapment? The nerve may be compressed within the true pelvis from pelvic fractures, by pelvic hematomas secondary to trauma, and by intrapelvic tumors. Local inflammatory or infectious processes in the adjacent pubic bones may spread laterally to involve the region of the obturator foramen causing “obturator tunnel syndrome “. What nerve innervates the obturator Externus? Obturator nerveFromLumbar plexus L2-L4Toposterior branch of obturator nerve, anterior branch of obturator nerveInnervatesmedial compartment of thighIdentifiers What happens when the...