Bilateral Sciatic Nerve Entrapment Due to Heterotopic Ossification in a Traumatic Brain-Injured Patient

Abstract

Safaz İ, Alaca R, Bozlar U, Yaşar E: Bilateral sciatic nerve entrapment due to heterotopic ossification in a traumatic brain-injured patient. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2008;87:65–67. We report a 22-yr-old man who was admitted to our inpatient rehabilitation center 17 mos after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). He was also diagnosed to have bilateral sciatic nerve entrapment attributable to hip heterotopic ossification (HO). Presenting the first report of a sciatic nerve entrapment secondary to a HO in TBI, we herein discuss the concurrence of a lower–motor nerve problem in a patient with an upper–motor nerve injury.