Along with the femoral nerve block, the sciatic nerve block is one of the most commonly performed peripheral nerve blocks of the lower limb block. It provides innervation to the hip joint, the knee joint and the ankle joint, it is blockade is utilised to provide analgesia for all such joint surgeries.
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