Manage and Treat Nerve Pain: Femoral Nerve Glides Exercises

Knee to Know Ep. 120

Nerves run throughout your legs and arms that travel between all of your soft tissue including connective tissue, muscle, and more. A normal healthy nerve can move smoothly like a piece of string between all the soft tissue.

Sometimes, nerves can lose mobility and this can lead to irritation and increased sensitivity of the nerves. This video demos exercises for the femoral nerve, specifically, that innervates the front parts of the leg.

These exercises can be performed in prone (on your stomach), side-lying, and standing. Check out the videos to learn the appropriate technique and remember to start with a low volume and build up slowly to avoid increasing irritation to the nerve.

[andreajohnson]

THIS HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! I was in chronic nerve pain for hours and I watched this video and it stopped immediately when I did the exercises with you!!! THANK YOU!!!! GOD USED YOU TO HELP ME🙏💙

[ljw]

This and your video on sciatic nerve glides have been transformative for me. I now having a problem with the peroneal nerve. Can you possibly do a video on nerve glides for that area? Thank you so much.

[omorikayoko]

I really loved this it is the best nerve floss vid.. I just discovered I have femoral nerve pain instead of sciatica. So it's so amazing to find this!!

[aks.k]

Beautifully explained in detailed way. Thank you.

[theaubingirl]

I started getting right hip flexor pain in 2018, affected my walking but it subsided, then in 2020 I started losing flexibility in my right leg but no pain unless I moved it side to side, now this year massive pain from hip to above my knee especially sitting and driving. I hope I can fix this because I will not take pain meds or have surgery. I’ve been in sports my entire life so this is so depressing for me, trying to stay strong. Thank you for your video ❤

[moniqaf]

OMG! You saved me! I had a pinched femoral nerve for about a week but this fixed it!

[joansobsey]

Please keep doing more nerve glides. I think it some sort nerve problems . I will be getting mri sometime in January. I’m the one you spoke to before who is 1and half years post op knee replacement and having stiffness and pain

[janechambers]

Thank you! This worked amazingly.. .I could not figure out how to get rid of this pain. . .you did it!

[ljw]

Thank you! No more feeling like my legs are entwined in barbed wire due to an injury!

[Daniel_Maxin]

In the first exercise you flexed the head as you bent the knee but in the other two you seem to extend the head back while you extended the leg back at the same time. I am trying to understand the difference between the sciatic nerve flossing as opposed to femoral nerve flossing. Cause the first one looks like what I saw in other videos called sciatic nerve flossing.

[aliciagonzales]

Great recommendations to start immediately thank you

[natavnv]

Thank you very much. Do these exercises help with obturator foramen syndroom?

[joansobsey]

Can you please do more videos on nerve problems post knee replacement surgery? I’ve been to 3 different orthopedic surgeons who can’t find anything wrong. I have pain laterally and sometimes towards the middle

[samueleclemente]

Thank you you showed the same movement my physiotherapist suggested me to do but i was too lazy. I will try to do all the movements so i can finally solve the issue

[markcox]

Great video and i had my femoral nerve trapped and my osteopath said and advised me to do the side that wasn't hurting first then do the side that is hurting as his theory is that nerves talk to each other 👍🤔

[duortsmode]

Also, if I am doing this right, normally, how long or how many sessions of these exercises would it take for the numbness and burning sensation to disappear? thanks a lot!

[VARTIKDAS]

Please make a video on infrapatellar saphenous nerve pain..

[mjclaudianava]

I came across a different demonstration in standing when the hip flexed and the neck is also flexed and looked downward. Which is head flexion and hip flexion combined together.

[joansobsey]

Hi I just did this again. I’m not doing it everyday but probably should. I’m thinking there is a nerve problem that caused my pain. I’m at a year and half post op knee replacement surgery. I have very good range of motion. I do not think it’s sciatic nerve. But I think some other nerve must have been damaged around the knee. Please post more nerve glides, if you can

[umranaslhasturk]

Bu egzersizler ne kadar süre yapılınca etkisini gösterir .birde egzersizleri yaptıktan sonra ağrı olması normal mi bir süre sonra geçer mi