16/09/2022
💪🏻 🧐 Foot Drop❓
➡️ Symptoms ‼️
✅ Inability to hold footwear.
A feeling of loosening of the footwear may cause discomfort and dragging of the affected foot while walking🦶🏻.
✅ Tripping.
Weakness in the muscles of the foot and toes may result in frequent tripping🦶🏻 .
✅ Falls.
It is common to lose balance, stumble, and fall with a foot drop. Falls occur due to the inability to properly lift the front part of the foot and toes while walking🦶🏻 .
✅ High steppage gait.
This type of walking pattern is characterized by raising the thigh up in an exaggerated fashion, such as in climbing stairs. A high steppage gait is attempted to prevent the toes from abnormally hitting or scraping the floor while walking🦶🏻 .
✅ Circumduction gait. Sometimes, in order to avoid falls or tripping, a circumduction walking pattern, where the leg remains straight and swings to the side in a semicircle to move forward may be attempted🦶🏻 .
✅ Decrease in muscle mass. Weakening of the muscles may cause the muscle mass to reduce, especially when foot drop is caused by certain autoimmune conditions, such as multiple sclerosis🦶🏻 .
✅ Romberg’s sign.
There may be loss of balance while standing without support and with the eyes closed🦶🏻.
⁉️Do you even know what does the Fascio-Adhesion-Model (FAM) theory tells about it ?
➡️ The inflammatory response restricts the movement of the Soft tissue which may cause nerve fixation with reduced mobility in the flow of common peroneal Nerve distribution.
➡️ Functional Integrated Dry Needling to the Fascial Layer of can lead to release of the Fascial restrictions and improve the Nerve Fixations.
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