San Antonio Weight Loss Center - Obesity & Joint Pain

Obesity causes joint pain- Our San Antonio weight loss center will help you lose weight!

Obesity is clinically defined as body mass index (BMI) greater than 30. Overweight is defined as a BMI greater than 25. This is calculated by measuring height and weight. If you don’t have a BMI calculator you can estimate a BMI of 30 if you are about 30 pounds overweight. It is becoming increasingly clear through ongoing research that obesity is hazardous to your health. In orthopaedics, the musculoskeletal system most effected is the joints. This is simply a matter of weight versus joint surface area to bear this weight (e.g. pounds per square inch). As body weight increases, the pressure on the joint surfaces increases as well. This leads to premature wear and tear on these joints which we call osteoarthritis, which eventually leads to the need for joint replacement. There is strong evidence linking excessive body weight to degenerative joint disease of the knee.

Obesity is an epidemic in North America. According to recent statistics, there has been a large and steady increase in the number of obese people in North America. More of these obese patients have been seen to require joint arthroplasty, confirming an association between obesity and the development of arthritis. For example, in 2005 24% of the general population in the US was obese, whereas 52% of arthoplasty patients were obese. In Canada according to their Joint Replacement Registry 87% of all patients receiving total knee replacement and 74% of patients receiving total hip replacement were obese or overweight. Additional studies from the registry data have indicated that a morbidly obese individual is thirty-three times more likely to require a total knee replacement than is a patient with a normal body mass index.

In addition to being a major factor in the development of arthritis in the general population, obesity also is hazardous to your health once you have undergone joint replacement with many studies demonstrating less than optimal outcomes for obese patients after total joint replacement to include early failure of the implant for various reasons and three times the surgical site infection rate after surgery.

For these reasons we at the Orthopaedic and Spine Institute (OSI) are taking weight loss seriously, both as a a potential treatment for joint pain and as a means to prepare and optimize our patients health prior to surgery. Please talk to your OSI physician about weight loss options.

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If you are overweight take the first step to better health by scheduling an appointment at our San Antonio weight loss center today!

 

At the Orthopaedic & Spine Institute's San Antonio weight loss center, we truly strive to maximize outcomes without the use of surgery. In an effort to optimize conservative treatment, we have begun offering medically supervised weight loss programs. These programs will be designed to decrease body weight, increase physical fitness (strength and flexibility), and patients' awareness of techniques to improve their chances of improving without surgical intervention.

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