The lower leg lies between the knee and ankle and works with the upper leg and foot to help perform key functions. In the leg are a number of bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels.

These tests will also indicate which exercises you should try, addressing either your femoral nerve (running down the front of the leg) or sciatic nerve (running down the back of the leg).

For some people, sciatic nerve pain is a mild but ... back of the leg or even across the front of the leg and the thigh,” he says. The pain may also run down the outside of the leg, he adds.

It's actually a bundle of five nerves that start in your lower back and run through your buttocks and down each ... out straight in front. At the same time, lift your right leg straight behind ...

Q: I have a sharp tingly pain that seems to start just below my knee and shoots down the outside ... peroneal nerve. It passes through a tunnel on the front/outside of the leg and eventually ...

The damage sometimes affects the nerves that run down the legs, causing pain in the area. Other symptoms of diabetic neuropathy can include: A doctor diagnoses the cause of intermittent leg pain ...

That discomfort is extra miserable when accompanied by a sharp, electrical pain or even a numb sensation running ... nerve which control the muscles of the calf, front of the lower leg, and ...

A man missing his lower leg ... sciatic nerve to muscles in the thigh above the amputation. One branch controls the calf and some foot muscles, the other controls the muscle running down the ...

Most commonly, people describe nerve-related pain as numbness and tingling, Standeart says. "Sometimes they'll describe an itchy sensation or water running down their leg or sensation of heat or ...

Irritation to the femoral nerve (which runs down the front of the leg) can cause pain in the front of the knee, and can also cause tension in the quads and hip flexors. “Essentially, the nervous ...