[The neurological essence of the "traumatized shin" syndrome].

Fractures of the shin are often accompanied by injuries of muscular and cutaneous branches of the tibial and fibular nerves. In patients with a similar trauma there appears a polyvalent complex of pathological reactions and functional disorders. An experience with treatment of patients with the above pathology allows a conclusion to be made that treatment of neurites should be started from the very first days of admittance of the patients to the hospital.