Knee joint replacement & nerve damage
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Can you please advise the prognosis of damage to my wife's peroneal nerve during a total knee joint replacement carried out on 29 April 2009. She has weakness of foot movement with no ability to bend the foot upward which results in a dragging of her right foot when walking using crutches? Is there any treatment that can be applied?
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