Medical literature on nerve regeneration statistics and J Smith

[waldoputty]

There is the nerve that needs to regenerate and then there is the nerve to muscle interface that needs to reinnervate. It didn't come on like a switch.

There are a few doctors but no one you have been arguing with claims to be an expert. You think in terms of deadlines while others think in terms of windows of time is what your problem is.

We don't have enough information about the state of his rehab as they keep it under wraps to say exactly where it is but my impression is that the peroneal is reinnervating and they are rehabbing it.

From poster in btb:
Typically, the body has several inherent redundancies
It’s not just one muscle that performs one move. In your first post, you mentioned that the study shows 84% recovery rate to a "grade 3" level. What that might mean is that one is able to mostly perform the actions, but only because of the redundancies, or secondary movers, and not the primary movers. The peroneal nerve controls the muscles of the front of the lower leg (as shown in your diagram). The muscles under it’s control dorsiflex the ankle joint (moves the dorsal part of the foot (back/top) towards the tibia), extend the toes (pulls the toes up and towards the shin), and everts the ankle joint (moves the outside of your foot towards the outside of your shin).

When you’re walking/running, you have to pull the toes and foot up (towards the shin) for clearance during the leg swing and foot strike portions of gait mechanics. Running tends to require less need for foot clearance as your knees typically are bent more already, providing most of the necessary clearance. If you are a jogger, and start walking a lot, you might notice a burning in the muscle in front of your shin. That’s because the muscles aren’t used to providing the amount of clearance needed during walking.

So, toe extension and dorsiflexion are very important. If you watch someone’s gait who has "drop foot," you’ll see a greater degree of knee bending, and a more forceful extension of the knee to get enough momentum to dorsiflex the foot properly.

Eversion (and inversion, the opposite movement) are primarily stabilizing actions. If you are moving side to side, you’re going to be using the muscles of the lower leg to stabilize and control your ankle motion. So, lateral cuts are going to put a lot more stress on those muscles than would running forward in a straight line.

In a linebacker position, Smith will need to be able to cut laterally, turn quickly, as well as run forward and backward. Hopefully he makes a full recovery in time to put in some great work learning how to play in this system in the off-season.