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Sural Nerve Entrapment?

Hi.
I’m a 32 year-old male.
I ruptured the Achilles tendon in my right leg about 6 months ago.
The surgery seemed to go well, and the tendon itself is healing nicely.
However, my rehab is being badly hampered by pain that radiates through the outside of my heel as I walk.
I find the I can reproduce the pain by rubbing the outside of my Achilles tendon, about halfway up towards the calf.From consultations with doctors, and my own research, I believe that I may have sural nerve entrapment.My questions are: (1) does that sound like a plausible theory?
and (2) are there non-surgical ways of alleviating the pain, or even gettgin rid of the entrspment altogether.For obvious reasons, surgery is my last preferred course of action.
Thanks.


1 Comment found

    Vivian Abrams DPM

    9 10

    Without examining you I can’t be 100% sure, but I would certainly include a Sural nerve entrapment in my list of possibilites. Sometimes an injection of cortisone is helpful. Sometimes a surgical decompression is needed. See your doctor.

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