Peroneal Nerve Glide

The peroneal nerve branches off the sciatic nerve at the popliteal fossa (behind the knee) and is made up from the dorsal branches of L4-S2 nerve roots.

It courses lateral, traversing around the head of the fibula, between the peroneus longus and the bone, and splits beneath that muscle to become the deep and superficial peroneal nerve.
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The superficial peroneal nerve innervates peroneus longus and brevis. These muscles plantar flex and evert the foot and help support the transverse arch of the foot. The nerve also supplies sensation to the anterolateral aspect of the foot with the exception of the webspace between the 1st and 2nd toes.

The deep peroneal nerve innervates tibialis anterior, extensor digitorum longus, peroneus tertius, extensor hallicus longus, extensor digitorum brevis, and extensor hallicus brevis. Most notable is its innervation of tibialis anterior, because without this muscle, your foot slaps the ground when you walk.

A common, traumatic way that the peroneal nerve is injured is at the same time as an inversion ankle sprain. For traumatic injuries like this, the nerve glide ☝️ is not going to be effective.

If you have some pain/numbness in the area of the fibula, or note some weakness into eversion, you can try ☝️and see if it changes your mobility/nueral sensitivity. If you’re unsure how to do that, check back a few videos ago to “Nerve Mobility - Self Assessment”.

Disclaimer: Nerves can easily get pissed off👺 Go see a specialists if you’re really having problems, or noticing significant weakness. By the time that weakness is obvious, the nerve injury is typically pretty significant