Foot drop is a deficit in turning the ankle and toes upward (dorsiflexion). Conditions leading to foot drop may be neurologic, muscular or anatomic in origin, often with significant overlap. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) is a coding of diseases and signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or diseases, as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO). ... // M00-M99 - Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M25) Arthropathies (M00-M03) Infectious arthropathies (M00) Pyogenic arthritis (M01) Direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere (M02) Reactive arthropathies (M023) Reiters disease (M03) Postinfective and reactive arthropathies in diseases classified elsewhere (M05-M14... The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... For a review of anatomical terms, see Anatomical position and Anatomical terms of location. ... Toes are the digits of the foot of a human or animal. ... In zootomy, several terms are used to describe the location of organs and other structures in the body of bilateral animals. ...

Features

Foot drop is characterized by steppage gait. When the person with foot drop walks, the foot slaps down onto the floor. To compensate for the toe drop, the patient must raise the thigh excessively, as if walking upstairs. Individuals with foot drop are unable to walk on their heel, flex their ankle, or walk with the normal heel-toe pattern [1].

Patients with painful disorders of sensation (dysesthesia) of the soles of the feet may have a similar gait, but do not have foot drop. Because of the extreme pain evoked by even the slightest pressure on the feet, the patient walks as if walking barefoot on hot sand. It has been suggested that Dysesthesias be merged into this article or section. ...

Pathophysiology

• Conditions affecting the nervous system
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)
  • Lumbar radiculopathy (L4 and L5 nerve roots)
  • Spinal disc herniation
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Peripheral neuropathies: Multifocal motor neuropathy (foot drop may be the presenting symptom), diabetic neuropathy
  • Common peroneal nerve palsy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (peroneal muscular atrophy)
  • Progressive spinal muscular atrophy
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Leprosy
  • Compartment syndrome
  • Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (long term manifestation)
  • Cryoglobulinemia
• Conditions affecting the musculature
  • Different kinds of muscular dystrophy (Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy, Myotonic dystrophy, desmin myopathy,
  • Inclusion body myositis
• Drugs
  • Vincristine (adults more severely affected than children) (Adams and Victor)
  • Auranofin
  • Allopurinol (causal relationship not established)
  • Glatiramer (uncommon)
  • Chymopapain (uncommon)
  • Thalidomide (uncommon)
• Toxins
  • Lead neuropathy (usually presents with wrist and finger drop, foot drop less common) (Adams and Victor)

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Treatment

The underlying disorder must be treated. For example, if a spinal disc herniation in the low back is impinging on the nerve that goes to the leg and causing symptoms of foot drop, then the herniated disc should be treated. A spinal disc herniation, incorrectly called a slipped disc, is a medical condition affecting the spine, in which a tear in the outer, fibrous ring (annulus fibrosus) of an intervertebral disc allows the soft, central portion (nucleus pulposus) to bulge out. ...

Ankles can be stabilized by lightweight orthoses, and shoes can be fit with springs to prevent foot drop while walking. Regular exercise is usually prescribed. An orthosis is a device that is applied to a part of the body to correct deformity, improve function, or relieve symptoms of a disease. ...

The latest treatments include stimulation of the peroneal nerve that lifts the foot when you step. Many stroke and multiple sclerosis patients with foot drop have had success with it.

Devices have also been designed to regulate walking.

References

• Ropper AH, Brown RH (eds) Cerebrovascular Diseases in Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology. 2005 McGraw-Hill, New York ISBN 0-07-141620-X
• Leg pain and numbness; what might these symptoms mean? [2]
• Cellulitis may present as foot drop in a diabetic patient [3]

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See also

• Gait abnormality
• Toe walking

Persons suffering from peripheral neuropathy experience numbness and tingling in their hands and feet. ... Toe walking refers to a condition where a person walks on his or her toes without putting much weight on the heel or any other part of the foot. ...

External links

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