FOAK Nerve injuries

Lots of injured type folks around here, so here goes:

When I touch the front of my knee, the *outside* of my leg hurts. Also
numbness in the calf and aching hamstring. Just damaged nerves that will
heal themselves? Or should I be worried (actually, I already am)?.

 

Can I have your Blackbird?

 

sounds like the sciatica that my sister had - she's had treatment and
doesn't have too mich of a problem nowadays.

See a GP.

 

This is one of medicine's little mysteries. Sometimes nerves will mend
on their own, often taking several years such as when the wife had the
end of a finger darned back on. Other times if a nerve is severed it
will stay that way. If you have feeling in an area the nerve is only
damaged rather than severed and should recover eventually. Do you have
any feeling in the areas that appear to hurt when you touch the knee ?.
Trapped nerves can be caused by bone abnormalities and can be fixed
with surgery - a common example is carpal tunnel.

 

I believe this is called "referred pain".
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referred_pain

Apparently the cause is unknown... to western medicine, at least.
Chinese acupuncturists probably know something about it.

Meanwhile, get a pretty girl to touch the front of your knee
and see if you get any "referred pleasure" [a term I just made up,
although I wouldn't mind being a research subject].

SQ

 

? ^^^^^^^^^^^ ?

In fact.... no, I don't want to know !

 

AIUI it's just crosstalk in the nerve fibres.