The Tarsal-Tunnel Syndrome

THE occurrence of peripheral neuropathies caused by compression incident to anatomic alteration has received considerable attention in recent years. Perhaps the best known of these compressive or entrapment neuropathies involves the median nerve as it passes under the transverse carpal ligament at the wrist. The carpal-tunnel syndrome that results is clinically identified by characteristic motor-sensory deficits in the median-nerve distribution in the hand.The tarsal-tunnel syndrome, resulting from compression of the posterior tibial nerve, is not as often recognized as its counterpart in the wrist. It is always useful in the recognition of a disease to have its clinical features . . .