The internal obturator muscle may cause sciatic pain

Pain

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 375-380

  Meknas, Khaled ^a   Christensen, Anders ^a   Johansen, Oddmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Internal obturator muscle; Operation; Piriformis muscle; Sciatic nerve entrapment

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; INTERNAL OBTURATOR MUSCLE; ISCHIALGIA; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037485770     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(03)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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