Iliohypogastric nerve

Looks like

A nerve from the first lumbar nerve running around the lower belly wall between its muscle layers, just above the ilio-inguinal nerve.

What it does

Supplies the lower abdominal muscles and brings feeling from the skin above the pubic bone and the side of the hip.

Keeping it well

Can be caught in low abdominal incisions (e.g. caesarean), causing lasting burning pain; nerve blocks help.

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