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Many conditions can cause foot drop, which makes walking difficult because the
foot easily bumps into obstacles, or the knee must be kept more flexed than usual
during the swing phase of gait, especially when going up stairs. Several
techniques that have been described to correct foot drop rely on bone procedures
or tendon transfer, with or without bone fixation. In this article, we describe a
simple technique that is heavily used in leprosy-endemic countries and provides
long-lasting results. It requires a double tendon transfer through the
interosseous membrane of leg; the tibialis posterior and flexor digitorum longus
are sutured to the tibialis anterior, and extensor hallucis longus and extensor
digitorum longus, respectively, proximally to the extensor retinaculum.
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