Some types of chronic pain are caused when a peripheral nerve—one of the nerves outside your brain and spinal cord, such as those in your arms and legs—is compressed, or pushed on. This type of pain often happens after surgery or injury such as a sports injury or car accident. If other treatments don’t help relieve pain, peripheral nerve decompression can help.
In this procedure, your surgeon will make a small incision near the nerve that is being compressed and cutting away or removing whatever is causing the pressure on the nerve.