Change in the biomechanics of gait in patients undergoing reconstructive surgeries on the foot due to alcoholic neuropathy

Alcoholic polyneuropathy can lead to such serious complications as one-and two-sided deformities of the feet. In this case, the feet get a characteristic equinovarus deformation, which seriously changes the biomechanics of the walk of patients, sometimes making it just impossible. The article describes the results of treatment of 16 patients with alcoholic polyneuropathy with foot deformity. This group of patients also included patients with severe disease, when both lower limbs were affected. The results of the operative treatment are shown from the point of view of change of parameters of the biomechanics of walking. It was revealed that complex surgical treatment in combination with external fixation devices is able to return such patients to everyday life and walking without additional support. © Bogatov V.B., Lychagin A.V., Drogin A.R., Garkavi A.V., Shishova A.A., 2019.