Entrapment of middle cluneal nerves as an unknown cause of low back pain  

作　　者：Yoichi Aota 

机构地区：[1]Department of Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery, Yokohama Brain and Spine Center

出　　处：《World Journal of Orthopedics》2016年第3期167-170,共4页世界骨科杂志（英文版）

摘　　要：Entrapment of middle cluneal nerves induces low back pain and leg symptoms. The middle cluneal nerves can become spontaneously entrapped where this nerve pass under the long posterior sacroiliac ligament. A case of severe low back pain, which was completely treated by release of the middle cluneal nerve, was presented. Entrapment of middle cluneal nerves is possibly underdiagnosed cause of low-back and/or leg symptoms. Spinal surgeons should be aware of this clinical entity and avoid unnecessary spinal surgeries and sacroiliac fusion. This paper is to draw attention by pain clinicians in this unrecognized etiology.Entrapment of middle cluneal nerves induces low back pain and leg symptoms. The middle cluneal nerves can become spontaneously entrapped where this nerve pass under the long posterior sacroiliac ligament. A case of severe low back pain, which was completely treated by release of the middle cluneal nerve, was presented. Entrapment of middle cluneal nerves is possibly underdiagnosed cause of low-back and/or leg symptoms. Spinal surgeons should be aware of this clinical entity and avoid unnecessary spinal surgeries and sacroiliac fusion. This paper is to draw attention by pain clinicians in this unrecognized etiology.

关 键 词：ENTRAPMENT neuropathy Superior cluneal NERVE MIDDLE cluneal NERVE SACROILIAC joint Low back PAIN NEUROPATHIC PAIN 

分 类 号：R681.55[医药卫生—骨科学]