Abstract
<h3>To the Editor.—</h3> The current craze of disco roller skating has produced a new entrapment syndrome. A 16-year-old female disco roller skater had complaints of numbness along the medial and dorsal aspect of her right foot. Symptoms began after a night of disco roller skating when she noted a throbbing, aching sensation on the dorsum and medial surface of her foot. The next morning she experienced numbness over the same area that persisted for three months while she continued to roller disco. Her examination showed an area of substantially decreased pinprick and light touch on the dorsum and medial surface of the right foot, most dense from the arch to the middle of the top of the foot, involving the great toe, and, to a lesser extent, extending laterally involving the dorsal surface of the second, third, and fourth toes. Findings for the remainder of the neurological examination, including electromyogram
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