Friday, July 27, 2007
Patients with lower back pain due to irritation of the L5 nerve roots may have difficulty with dorsiflexion of the ankle and toes. Patients may also suffer from pain in the toes especially on pulling the toes upward. With such a movement, toe muscles may actually go into spasm with the toes [...]
Friday, July 20, 2007
Patients with lower back pain secondary to nerve root irritation especially of the S1 nerve root can have pain on turning the foot and ankle outward away from the midline of the body (foot eversion). Foot eversion is always accompanied by plantarflexion also of the foot.
Tightness due to spasm in the muscles [...]
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Foot and hand massage has the potential to assist in pain relief. Massaging the feet and hands stimulates the mechanoreceptors that activate the "nonpainful" nerve fibers, preventing pain transmission from reaching consciousness.
The following study showed that a 20-minute foot and hand massage (5 minutes to each extremity), provided 1 to 4 [...]
Friday, July 06, 2007
Patients with lower back pain due to irritation of the L5 and S1 nerve roots may have difficulty with turning the foot inward toward the midline (inversion). Usually with foot inversion, the sole of the foot is turned toward the midline of the body.
Muscles that turn the foot inward are primarily [...]
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