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Driving making neuropathy of the feet worse
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Is this true if only the Baxter nerve is affected? Wouldn’t that blocked feeling to only 1/2 the foot?
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I believe that I have baxter's nerve entrapment. My numbness is when I am off of feet eg. when I'm in bed. During the day pain is under medial side of heel, medial ankle and spreads to lateral plantar to baby toe which is always numb.
This all hapend after TKR, caused by swelling of the inside of my ankle.
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The Baxter nerve is very small, and only affects a small part of the inside of the heel. I don't think there is such a thing as PN exclusively of the Baxter nerve.
Small fiber PN is generally widespread, so it would be impractical to ablate large nerves. I don't think this technique is used for small fiber PN. It may be for other forms, but it is used infrequently.