Weight and muscle strenght lost after bariatric surgery

Abstract

Twenty two year old female patient had applied physical medicine and rehabilitation outpatient clinic for foot drop. It was learned that she had had bariatric surgery for obesity treatment three months ago and vitamin and mineral supplements were administered in the postoperative period. The patient started to feel weakness in her left big toe two months after the surgery, but she ignored it and noticed that her left foot was falling off three weeks later without any trauma. In the physical examination, it was observed that she could not dorsiflexion of her left big toe and left foot. Electromyogram evidenced focal left peroneal mononeuropathy at the fibular head. Rapid weight loss due to bariatric surgery, which has become widespread in recent years for the treatment of obesity, has also brought medical complications. Among these complications, neurological complications have an important place and both the central and peripheric nervous systems can be affected. Foot drop is also considered an important peripheral complication that may develop due to peroneal nerve palsy after this surgery and a rapid decrease in body weight is associated with a higher risk of foot drop

Keywords

• Bariatric surgery
• peroneal nerve palsy
• obesity

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