Myofascial Foot Pain Following Uneventful Epidural Analgesia for Labor and Delivery

Badie S. Mansour, Gretchen M. Wienecke, Jorge A. Cure, Jeremy T. Almon, Alberto J. de Armendi

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DOI: 10.4236/ojanes.2012.21004                

Abstract

Following an uneventful delivery under epidural analgesia, a 17 year old female patient was referred to the Pain Clinic because of numbness and pain of the left big toe for 2 and a half Months. An Orthopedic consultation had ruled out foot injury and concluded that the pain was radicular and secondary to nerve damage from the epidural analgesia. A Pain Clinic evaluation made the diagnosis of myofascial pain which was successfully treated with trigger pint block using normal saline.

Keywords

Myofascial Pain; Trigger Point; Epidural Analgesia; Delivery in Adolescent; Local Infiltration; Chronic Foot Pain

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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