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What is a footdrop?
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What is a footdrop: Decrease or loss of muscle strength on the front of your leg due to nerve damage, causing inability to pull your toes/ foot up towards your leg, causing the toes to drag on the ground.
Answered 3/30/2014
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Footdrop: Footdrop is weakness of the dorsiflexors of the ankle usually the anterior tibial muscle most commonly caused by entrapment of the peroneal nerve at the fibular head.
Answered 12/3/2014
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