What are the symptoms of obturator nerve injury

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Everyone should have heard of the disease of nerve injury. Obturator nerve injury is a kind of nerve injury. We all know that nerve injury brings a series of harm to the human body. Let's talk about the symptoms of obturator nerve injury.

What are the symptoms of obturator nerve injury

The first is the initial obturator nerve compression sign followed by intestinal obstruction. When the obturator nerve is pressed close, there is tingling, numbness and acid swelling in the groin area and the anteromedial thigh, and it radiates to the medial side of the knee. When coughing, leg extension, abduction, external rotation, due to adductor muscle on the obturator muscle traction, pain (make obturator nerve compression aggravation).

Second: in the early stage of obturator hernia or a small number of incomplete intestinal wall hernia (Richter hernia) can be manifested as intermittent abdominal pain and muscle pain or acid distension in the thigh and knee joint. Somell also found that in addition to obturator neuralgia, when obturator hernia occurred, an area of hypersensitivity could be found at about 10 cm above the medial side of the knee.

Third, 93.7% - 100% of obturator hernia patients had intestinal obstruction. Because obturator is composed of bone and tenacious aponeurosis, its position is deep and narrow, and hernia ring lacks elasticity, most patients have small but not obvious hernia mass, and mainly seek medical treatment for intestinal obstruction such as abdominal pain, abdominal distension, vomiting, stop defecation and exhaust. A few cases showed chronic incomplete intestinal obstruction.

matters needing attention

After understanding some basic symptoms of obturator nerve injury, we can have a clear idea and make some judgments. For patients with obturator nerve injury, we must not give up and maintain a positive attitude to face all the diseases.