Anatom3DSural nerve
Nervus suralis · Lýtkový nerv (surální)
Nervous system
Looks like
A thin skin nerve running down the back of the calf and behind the outer ankle bone to the outer edge of the foot.
What it does
Brings feeling from the outer back of the lower leg, outer heel and outer edge of the foot.
Keeping it well
Used for nerve biopsy and as graft material. Numbness in its area is often an early sign of diabetic neuropathy.
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Growing pains
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies