Review article

https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2022_284692

Tarsal tunnel syndrome

Hana Skala Kavanagh orcid.org/0000-0002-9340-0809 ; KBC Sestre milosrdnice, Klinika za reumatologiju, fizikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Diana Balen ; KBC Sestre milosrdnice, Klinika za reumatologiju, fizikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tomislav Nemčić ; KBC Sestre milosrdnice, Klinika za reumatologiju, fizikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS) is relatively rare compressive mononeuropathy of lower extremities caused by compression of tibial nerve and its associated branches (medial and lateral plantar nerve) in tarsal tunnel. It is one of canalicular sindromes, although much less common, and is equivalent of carpal tunnel syndrome. Clinically it is presented with pain in medial foot aspect, numbness and parestesia in the first three toes. Beside clinical assessement, diagnosis of this neuropathy is made by the use of electrodiagnostic procedures of neurography (ENG) and electromiography (EMG) and diagnostic ultrasound imaging. The management of tarsal tunnel syndrome can be conservative or operative. Patients with light to moderate simptoms are treated conservatively while those with severe damage undergo operative treatment. The aim of this systematic narrative review is to scrutinize the literature to date of TTS with emphasis on clinical diagnosis validation via neurography (ENG) and electromiography (EMG), and diagnostic ultrasound.

Keywords

myography; neural conduction; tarsal tunnel syndrome; ultrasonography

Hrčak ID:

284692

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/284692

Publication date:

1.12.2022.

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