PARAMETERS FOR ASSESSING THE RESULTS OF THE OPERATIONALLY TREATED CHILDREN FROM THE CONGENITAL BENT FOOT

The foot of the modern man is a result of incomplete adaptation of osteo-muscular and ligament apparatus to the changes of the gravitational forces ratio. The human foot is in constant contact with the environment; its basic movements are directed to its main task, namely, WALKING. One of the most frequent anomalies considerably disturbing the foot function and, thus, the act of walking itself is a congenital bent foot. In the paper the clinic and radiological parameters for assessing the results of the children who were operationally treated from the congenital bent foot (PEVC) are defined. The period from 1985 do 2000 was analyzed as the time when at the Clinic for Children Surgery and Orthopedics there were 112 children treated from the idiopathic (structural) PEVC, more precisely, 72 boys and 40 girls. The overall number of the operationally treated feet is 141