Anatom3DAnterior cutaneous branches of femoral nerve
Rami cutanei anteriores nervi femoralis · Přední kožní větve stehenního nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Several skin branches of the femoral nerve piercing the fascia on the front of the thigh.
What it does
Bring feeling from the skin of the front and inner thigh down to the knee.
Keeping it well
Can be irritated after hip or groin surgery; numbness of the front thigh after injury points to the femoral nerve.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies