摘要：The purpose of this observant study is to: evaluate the efficiency of electrotherapy and physiotherapy, organizing individualized recovery programs based on the remaining functional deficiency after the damage on the external popliteal nerve, and to realize an adequate familial, social and professional integration. The research was performed on a number of 12 subjects with the clinical diagnosis of external popliteal nerve paresis, secondary to a lumbar hernia at L4-L5 level, and it was realized on a period of time of 12 months (September 2009- august 2010). All the subjects have received certain electrotherapy procedures and also individualized physiotherapy treatment, adapted to the existing deficit. The obtained results were materialized in the improvement of the functional indicators, and also the adequate familial, social and professional integration. The recovery of functional deficiencies, determined by the damage to the peripheral nerves, more exactly the external popliteal nerve, is complex, and requires the usage of the most efficient methods for improving the dysfunction. Paraphrasing Kiss I. (2002), the physiotherapy must be exploited at maximum, and the prevention, correction, and recovery, of the functional deficiencies, that may develop in all of the disease`s stage, belong, largely, to the physiotherapist treatment. Also Ennis, B.L. (1991), said that “electrotherapy represents an important part of the physiotherapy process (analgesic and nerve stimulation), and together, these methods are completing one another, having as a goal: mediation of the nervous transmission, improvement of the contractile properties, trophic properties of the muscles and recruitment of as many motor units as possible”
