The peroneal nerve (pair-oh-NEE-ul), a branch of the sciatic nerve, supplies movement and sensation to the lower leg, foot, and toes, including the muscles that lift the front of the foot. It is almost always affected in CMT, which is why foot drop is one of the disease’s most common signs.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
