Case study 1: Post-abdominal surgery lateral femoral cutaneous nerve neuralgia

A 37-year-old woman presents with left thigh and hip pain of approximately 18 months duration

She has Altered sensation, pain and sensitivity from anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and greater trochanter over lateral thigh....

Pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms as such”.¹ Neuropathic pain is defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, ie. damage or a lesion of the sensory receptors and...