Without it, you wouldn’t be able to flex or rotate your leg. The lumbar plexus has seven bundles of nerves, and the obturator nerve is the second most inferior, or lowest, nerve in this network.

Read the Anesthesia & Analgesia abstract on lumbar plexus depth. Read more coverage on anesthesia: – Study: Lethal Dose of Bupivacaine Higher for Rats 2 vs. 16 Weeks Old ...

Lumbar Plexopathy: Axial CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis. Note the large pelvic mass on the right. Because of its position, it compresses the lumbar plexus which runs inferior to the iliacus muscle ...

Researchers studied patients aged one to 24 undergoing lower extremity surgery and lumbar plexus block. They found a strong linear relationship between lumbar plexus depth and PSIS-ICL distance. The ...