Drop foot, also know as foot drop, involves the ankle and foot muscles. Someone with drop foot has trouble controling the movements of the affected foot. Without this control, the foot cannot be raised properly to take a step and the gait is altered. This is where a drop foot brace can be very helpful.
The causes of drop foot are many and varied. There are underlying problems or diseases that must be discovered. The loss of control in a person’s foot and ankle resulting in foot drop is often caused by an injury to the person’s peroneal nerve, which runs along the outside of the leg between the bottom of the knee down through the foot to the toes. The peroneal nerve can be damaged by fractures to the leg or from other injuries sustained to the sciatic nerve, the main nerve in the leg. The most common cause of foot drop is a herniated lumbar disc near the bottom of the spine. A herniated lumbar disc affects the sciatic nerve and often causes a person to lose some control over the ankle and foot.
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