The most common cause is habitual leg crossing that compresses the common fibular nerve as it crosses around the head of fibula.
The direct arm attaches to the posterior and lateral aspect of the fibular styloid.
The deep fibular nerve is also subject to injury resulting from lower motor neuron disease, diabetes, ischemia, and infectious or inflammatory conditions.
Collectively the tibial and common fibular nerve makes up the general term sciatic nerve.
Similarly, in the lower leg, structures near the tibia (shinbone) are tibial and structures near the fibula are fibular (or peroneal).
Pistorius was born with fibular hemimelia (congenital absence of the fibula) in both legs.
Damage to the deep fibular nerve, as is possible with traumatic injury to the lateral knee, results in foot drop.
However, they differ from tetanurans in that the cnemial crest is less clearly offset from the fibular condyle and the fibular crest is connected to the proximal end.
