The sciatic nerve turns into two main branches down your leg. One becomes the tibial nerve, and the other becomes the peroneal nerve. These two sciatic nerve branches cover the front and back of ...

These branches supply nerves to the leg and control the muscles, allowing people to lift the ankles and toes upwards. The peroneal nerve is a major nerve branching off from the sciatic nerve.

The superficial peroneal nerve branches off from the sciatic nerve, or the common peroneal nerve, which ultimately winds around the head of the fibula, or shinbone, near the knee. The superficial ...

It’s a branch of your sciatic nerve called the peroneal nerve. This nerve goes around the outside of your knee before traveling down the outside of your lower leg. At the bottom of your knee ...

The common peroneal nerve is a nerve in the lower extremity below the knee which is a branch of the sciatic nerve that originates to the spine. The common peroneal nerve is responsible for ...

The sciatic nerve starts in the lower back, travels down the back of the leg, and ends at the knee where it branches into the tibial and common peroneal nerves. A person may experience sciatica ...

travel down the sciatic nerve and then branch off as the peroneal nerve. Foot drop can result from damage at any of these places. Clearly, your husband’s is related to the surgery (but that ...