Can OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE HAVE SURGERY?
According to body mass index measurement, we often encounter knee disorders in people who are overweight, and the most common of these disorders is Gonarthrosis, that is, Calcification.
The body weight constantly applied to the knee joints causes cartilage loss in the joints after a while. In fact, although the word "calcification"creates the perception of some kind of accumulation occurring in the joint, on the contrary, there is a loss.
An overweight Gonarthrosis patient suffers from pain as much as it does due to their weight. He also experiences limitation of movement due to knee pain. Since he cannot do enough physical activity for these two reasons, his weight gain continues. As his weight increases, the load on his knees also increases, so arthritis progresses rapidly. As arthritis progresses, pain becomes severe and the patient's mobility is greatly reduced. Therefore, this becomes a vicious circle; As the weight increases, the calcification increases, and as the calcification increases, the weight increases as the ability to move will be completely restricted.
So How to End This Cycle?
In the past, there was an approach to overweight patients such as "you must lose weight first, then let's do the surgery", but this has no place in the new generation medical approach. Because it is a very unrealistic approach to expect a patient who has entered this cycle and whose mobility is very limited to lose weight without completely relieving the pain in his knees.
From a medical perspective, an overweight patient can undergo this type of surgery while a normal-weight patient does not. There is no difference between having a patient. In knee prosthesis surgeries, since patients are operated on without general anesthesia and without being put to sleep, the side effects of obesity in case of anesthesia are not observed.
Therefore, when patients who have complaints of pain in their knees but are trying hard to lose weight apply to us, they can do so with peace of mind without wasting any time. We apply the new generation knee prosthesis surgical procedure. Patients who regain their previous knee health in a short time after surgery can lose weight more easily. Thus, their quality of life is lower than before. It would have made a significant positive development.
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