I have chronic mild peroneal nerve entrapment at the fibular head in my left leg (nerve conduction velocity drop from 54 m/s to 44 m/s). I consulted a surgeon and he believes that we need to essentially reconstruct my knee and tighten up my joints. I am somewhat hypermobile in that knee and he thinks that is causing traction on the nerve. I do not have a hypermobility disorder; my elbows are double jointed too but I can't bend my thumb all the way back or anything crazy like that. The only reason I am skeptical of his surgical plan is that I sustained this nerve injury from an isolated injury (inversion ankle sprain). Prior to that, I was running, hypermobile knee and all, injury free. Also, at age 18, I am nervous about lifelong mobility restrictions that this would impose. He mentioned that although it is not ideal, we will have to use a cadaver tendon graft because my tendons are too small or something? So I am wary about that too. The problem is, this surgeon is well respected (he recently did Shalane Flanagan's knees) so I have been giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not sure what to think of these surgical plans. We tried taping the joint to stabilize it for 6 weeks and I felt no improvement yet he still wants to do this massive surgery just because my knee joints are pretty mobile? I'm not sure what to think. Any advice is welcome.