This week we are going discuss another obscure nerve compression syndrome, this time of the leg—meralgia paresthetica. Meralgia paresthetica is also known as lateral femoral cutaneous nerve ...

What treatment modes are available for meralgia paresthetica (MP)? How often is surgical decompression needed? If required, what would be the indications and who is the best person to do it -- a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have had meralgia paresthetica for two and a half years. I have all the classic symptoms: tingling, pins and needles, some numbness and stinging in the top and side of my left thigh.