Review Question - QID 211130

A 65-year-old male presents to your office for evaluation of chronic debilitating left hip pain over the last 5 years. He requires a shoe lift to ambulate. Radiographs are shown in figure A. The patient undergoes surgical treatment with a left THA, and his intra-op radiographs reveal equal leg lengths. The sciatic nerve was well visualized and protected during the procedure. On the first post-operative day, the patient is noted to have weakness in ankle dorsiflexion with paresthesias over the dorsum of the foot. What intra-operative technique could have prevented this complication?