Mononeuropathies can occur secondary to direct trauma, compression, stretch injury, ischemia, infection, or inflammatory disease. Dancers are also prone to superficial and deep peroneal nerve entrapments.[1]
Nerve entrapments are due to compression of the nerve by either normal structures or an external source. The most common nerve entrapments are at the median nerve of the wrist (ie, carpal tunnel syndrome) and ulnar nerve of the elbow (ie, cubital tunnel syndrome). For more information, see Nerve Entrapment Syndromes.
In the lower extremity, peroneal neuropathy is the most common isolated mononeuropathy. In patients of our electrodiagnostic laboratory, it is the third most common mononeuropathy overall.