Innervation of the knee

[Diane]

Hi there,
I'm going to start new threads on "nerve" treatments, now that I'm finally getting some visuals made. These are my own pictures, so I can post them publically. I'll start with the anterior view. I became a visual reductionist, taking apart the "forest" and selecting out one nerve at a time for separate drawings - I can take one nerve and show it right around the knee. Here is the Saphenous nerve:

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Here's another nerve, Posterior cutaneous of the thigh:

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And here is Medial cutaneous nerve of the thigh, which appears to overlap a lot with saphenous:

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Intermediate cutaneous nerve of the thigh: Check out how it combines with saphenous and lateral to form the patellar plexus:

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Lateral cutaneous:

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The lower leg Lateral cutaneous branch splits off from the tibial/common peroneal:

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The Genicular branches come from the tibial:

[Nick]

Awesome Diane. Thanks!

BTW, planning a trip to the West Coast in the Fall - think we could arrange a DNM workshop?

Nick

[Diane]

Sure can Nick. When? Email me.

Here's one more I made today: Superficial and deep peroneals:

[bernard]

Beautiful drawings Diane!
May I try a bit of working on them?

[Diane]

Yes! YES YES YES!! Please be my guest Bernard, do with them what you will.

[nari]

Great stuff, Diane. Wish I understood more about cutaneous nerves years ago when battling with recalcitrant knee pains of all sorts!

Do you ever sleep? :)

Nari

[Diane]

Nari, I wish I had known too. I didn't so I let peoples' skin pull me around instead. Which worked out ok, because it was their nervous system pulling me around. I just didn't know which way the bits were organized, and now I'm starting to.

I do sleep, very deeply, and even for long stretches usually. :)