This incapacitates the leg by hitting the common peroneal nerve.

Where the common peroneal nerve winds round the head of the fibula, it is palpable.

The man closest to him received a knee strike to the common peroneal nerve in his upper thigh, rendering him unable to stand.

A peroneal strike is a temporarily disabling blow to the common peroneal nerve of the leg, just above the knee.

The primary targets now are nerves, such as the common peroneal nerve, and large muscles, such as the quadriceps or biceps.

Common peroneal nerve dysfu...

The muscular branch eventually gives off the tibial nerve and common peroneal nerve, which innervates the muscles of the (lower) leg.

The common peroneal nerve crosses the proximal fibula between 4 to 8 cm below the head and can be palpated as it crosses the bone.

The common peroneal nerve branches to form the superficial and deep peroneal nerves, both of which supply extensor muscles of the foot.

As the common peroneal nerve crosses the bone it lies under the extensor digitorum longus and peroneus longus muscles.

In three interviews, he said he repeatedly struck the two shackled detainees above the knee with blows intended to incapacitate the leg by hitting the common peroneal nerve.

Injury to the common peroneal nerve is the most common isolated mononeuropathy of the lower extremity and produces sensory problems on the lateral lower leg in addition to foot drop.

Common peroneal nerve and its branches innervate some part of the skin of the foot, the peroneal muscles of the leg and the dorsal muscles of the foot.

Several variations occur, but the most common type of anomaly (81% of anomalies) is the Beaton's type B which is when the common peroneal nerve pierces the piriformis muscle.