TITLE:
Myofascial Foot Pain Following Uneventful Epidural Analgesia for Labor and Delivery
AUTHORS:
Badie S. Mansour, Gretchen M. Wienecke, Jorge A. Cure, Jeremy T. Almon, Alberto J. de Armendi
KEYWORDS:
Myofascial Pain; Trigger Point; Epidural Analgesia; Delivery in Adolescent; Local Infiltration; Chronic Foot Pain
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Anesthesiology,
Vol.2 No.1,
December
31,
2011
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.