Chances are if you are reading this blog, you are one of three types of people:
1. You suffer from foot drop and are interested in getting rid of that horrible brace we call the AFO
2. You are related to or know someone with foot drop
3. Or, one a more pleasant note, you are just someone like me to happens to have an interest in anything medical/sciencey that also has a personal story behind it
Well, I happen to be a 24 year old who has had foot drop off and on since I was 15. Almost 9 years ago, I was playing in a softball game and I was struck on the inside of the ankle with a line drive. Initially, it seemed that I just bruised some soft tissue, but after unrelieved pain for 2 years, I was found to have crushed the peroneal nerve or the nerve that runs right underneath the skin on the side of the knee.
After days of hospitalizations, tens of injections, multiple procedures, 20+ operations, I am not recovering from a surgery to position my foot so I can (hopefully) walk without a brace. I had surgery just over 5 weeks ago and decided to write this blog to hopefully help others.
Keep following :)
This is my left foot showing the foot drop. Stay tuned for photos of what the "corrected" foot drop looks like.
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