<p>Dealing with the pain of permanent foot drop. Anyone else? I will be 67 this year and have had foot drop for 40 years. I had a knee replacement last October and the knee pain is now gone but I’m worried that the lack of muscle tone will cause the knee replacement to become misaligned at some point in the near future. I also switched to a carbon fiber AFO which alleviated the back pain from walking differently. I got an orthotic made, which has helped the pain of walking on the carbon steel much better. But now the nerves become highly excited after wearing it for half a day and I can barely stand it. If I’m walking, it doesn’t hurt for the most part, but when I sit down, the nerves just start screaming. Does anyone else deal with this and what do you do to help the pain? I have a small bone spur on my big toe and was told that it’s not severe enough for surgery. The podiatrist that made the orthotics has adjusted the them several times and it’s much better. Can they be adjusted enough to alleviate the pain completely or is the pain purely neurological?</p>