An inability to exert control over one’s foot combined with loss of sensation in the toes suggests an injury to nervous tissue. Nervous tissue is responsible for transmitting signals that coordinate movement and sensation, so damage to it can result in both motor control loss and sensory deficits in the affected area. This type of presentation is typical of peripheral neuropathy or nerve injury affecting the motor and sensory branches of peripheral nerves supplying the foot and toes. Such nerve damage leads to muscle weakness or paralysis (loss of motor control) and numbness or loss of sensation (sensory impairment)

. In summary, the symptoms indicate injury to the nervous tissue , specifically peripheral nerves controlling foot movement and toe sensation.