Help Doctors! My leg goes numb when I run..........? I am in the Army and 2 years ago I had a leg injury for overpushing myself in training. I couldnt run for about 6 months cause it still hurt. Then after a while I could run again but instead of pain, my right lower leg would go numb sometimes to the point where I feel like I am dragging my foot cause its numb and I have to stop running.  I was diagnosed with compartment syndom in my lower leg and I had a fasciotomy in January.  But when I started running again, my leg still goes numb but now its goes up to the back of my thigh.  Its not pain, its just a numb feeling which is annoying and makes me have to stop running even if its only after 1 mile.  I think they mighthave made the incision in the wrong place (front side of my calf), since now it is becoming more obvious that the numbness is in the back of my leg. Could the surgeon have cut on the wrong compartment, or could it be something else other than compartment syndrome (even though all the sympthoms are the same)? Please help!!

Summarized question: Is numbness in the lower right leg a common complication of fasciotomy?