Thigh weakness/foot drop after spine surgery

Thank you so much for your reply. The first EMG showed compression below the knee. I had another EMG about 7 weeks after the release and it showed some inervation below the release site. I was also told based on the test, that should my foot not recover, I am eligible for tendon transfer. Obviously, having it come back is what I'm hoping for. In the meantime, I have had a hip replacement on the oposire side and that has delayed the foot therapy. I have always had some slight movement in the foot, but it never goes beyond that movement. I guess I'm over anxious for improvement. Having the drop foot has changed my world and taken away life as I knew it.
Thank you so much for your reply!

Thank you for your response. I did discuss it with my surgeon & his PA after my follow-up appointments as well as last summer. They seem to want me to give it more time. My foot drop isn't a typical foot drop in the sense that I can move my foot, but more rather is it steming from the weakness in my thigh and I am toe dragging and a foot slap when I walk. My surgery was fall of 2021, I am fused from L1-S1.

I had foot drop about a decade ago, then I got brachial plexitis and previously carpal tunnel. Eventually I was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory polyradiculopathy or CIPD. It is a motor nerve dysfunction disorder. Mine was diagnosed through nerve and muscle testing. Just throwing that out there and that there can be more than one cause of foot drop. I wish you the best

Several years ago I had a Spinal Tap at JFK Hospital in Boynton Beach Fl.
The Tech twice missed the vein. Terrible pain. That night Sciatica in left leg. Terrible Pain.
Foot Drop came next, Then Neuropathy and numbness came.
I may have Sinal Stenosis. Could it be the cause of all my problems.

Several years ago I had a Spinal Tap at JFK Hospital in Boynton Beach Fl.
The Tech twice missed the vein. Terrible pain. That night Sciatica in left leg. Terrible Pain.
Foot Drop came next, Then Neuropathy and numbness came.
I may have Sinal Stenosis. Could it be the cause of all my problems.

A lot of people with spinal cord injury/myelopathy have foot drop. Mine is fairly minor so I do not wear a brace. There are good hinged braces available for people with foot drop — occupational or physical therapists could help you with this.

Several years ago I had a Spinal Tap at JFK Hospital in Boynton Beach Fl.
The Tech twice missed the vein. Terrible pain. That night Sciatica in left leg. Terrible Pain.
Foot Drop came next, Then Neuropathy and numbness came.
I may have Sinal Stenosis. Could it be the cause of all my problems?

I had foot drop about a decade ago, then I got brachial plexitis and previously carpal tunnel. Eventually I was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory polyradiculopathy or CIPD. It is a motor nerve dysfunction disorder. Mine was diagnosed through nerve and muscle testing. Just throwing that out there and that there can be more than one cause of foot drop. I wish you the best

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a slowly developing autoimmune disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the myelin that insulates and protects your body's nerves.

I think you left out the "demyelinating" part unless CIPD is something else.

I have foot drop on the right which developed suddenly along with severe right radicular leg pain. An MRI showed that I had severe spinal stenosis. Given the sudden onset neurological changes in the context of severe spinal stenosis that explained the foot drop ---not.

Fortunately, an EMG/NCS was done to "delineate the damage." The results EMG/NCS showed diffuse peripheral neuropathy involving my arms and legs. Neuropathy of the peroneal nerve caused the foot drop.

I still have severe lumbar spinal stenosis. Nobody could explain why I have peripheral neuropathy so it was called idiopathic. I do have autoimmune problems so I suspected CIDP might be the cause except the foot drop happened suddenly.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a slowly developing autoimmune disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the myelin that insulates and protects your body's nerves.

I think you left out the "demyelinating" part unless CIPD is something else.

I have foot drop on the right which developed suddenly along with severe right radicular leg pain. An MRI showed that I had severe spinal stenosis. Given the sudden onset neurological changes in the context of severe spinal stenosis that explained the foot drop ---not.

Fortunately, an EMG/NCS was done to "delineate the damage." The results EMG/NCS showed diffuse peripheral neuropathy involving my arms and legs. Neuropathy of the peroneal nerve caused the foot drop.

I still have severe lumbar spinal stenosis. Nobody could explain why I have peripheral neuropathy so it was called idiopathic. I do have autoimmune problems so I suspected CIDP might be the cause except the foot drop happened suddenly.