Anatom3DAnterior rami of lumbar nerves
Rami anteriores nervorum lumbalium · Přední větve bederních nervů
Nervous system
Looks like
The front branches of the five lumbar spinal nerves, emerging beside the lumbar vertebrae into the psoas muscle.
What it does
Form the lumbar plexus and help form the sacral plexus, supplying the lower belly, groin and leg.
Keeping it well
A group term; disc herniation affects them as they leave the spine, causing leg pain along their path.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Herniated disc
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Neurogenic bladder
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Tetanus
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies