The sural nerve innervates the lateral ( outside ) portion of the foot and could be activated during either the swing or stance phase when encountering uneven terrain.
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Typically a surplus sensory nerve called the sural nerve, which runs down the outside of the leg from the knee to the ankle, is used for a replacement.
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In the one stage procedure a free muscle transplant with a latissimus dorsi graft or a nerve graft ( using the sural nerve or saphenous nerve ) can be used.
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Likewise, the sural nerve provides sensory innervation to the skin on the lateral side of the foot as well as the skin on the posterior aspect of the lower leg.
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Sural nerve block is not advised if a patient is allergic to the anesthetic solution, has infected tissue at the injection site, has severe bleeding disorder, or has preexisting neurological damage.
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They remove a piece of a sensory nerve called the sural nerve from the back of the patient's ankle, leaving a numb spot slightly larger than a half-dollar on the man's foot.
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In the popliteal fossa the nerve gives off branches to gastrocnemius, popliteus, soleus and plantaris muscles, an articular branch to the knee joint, and a cutaneous branch that will become the sural nerve.
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During a cross facial nerve graft procedure one or more branches of the non-paralysed facial nerve are divided and connected to one or more sural nerve grafts which are tunnelled to the affected side of the face.
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Dr . Peter Dyck, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn ., introduced sural nerve biopsies in the United States and said he performed them on 2 to 5 percent of the patients in whom he suspects serious nerve diseases.
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One branch, the " peroneal anastomotic " ( n . communicans fibularis ), arises near the head of the fibula, crosses the lateral head of the gastrocnemius to the middle of the leg, and joins with the medial sural cutaneous nerve to form the sural nerve.
