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Foot Drop After a Nerve Injury, and Why It Is Not the Same as Foot Drop After a Stroke
We see many people with foot drop, but the cause can vary a great deal and the treatment approach consequently will need to be personalised to the situation. One person has broken a leg; another has dislocated a knee or is recovering from a hip replacement or lumbar spine surgery, and now the foot on that side will not lift. They are catching their toe on every kerb. They have discovered foot drop stimulators online, watched the videos of people walking along a corridor without a brace, and they want to know how to get one.
The videos are genuine. The devices do what they appear to do. But almost every person in those videos has had a stroke, and that difference is not a minor detail. It decides whether that type of device can work for you at all.
I want to explain what a foot drop stimulator is actually doing, why it may do nothing whatsoever for a peroneal nerve injury, and what does matter in the first few months after that kind of injury.