Drop foot after knee dislocation: Evaluation and treatment

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-146

  Cush, Gerard ^a   Irgit, Kaan ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

drop foot; knee dislocation; nerve graft; neurolysis; peroneal nerve; posterior tibial tendon

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE DISLOCATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROLYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TENDON TRANSFER; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND;

FOOT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE DISLOCATION; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955829523     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3182191897     Document Type: Review

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