Can bariatric surgery delay the need for knee replacement in morbidly obese osteoarthritis patients.

t in function but when dietary changes were combined with exercises, function improved by 24% along with significant improvement in the symptoms associated with knee OA.[ 15 ] Thus, we hypothesised that weight loss through bariatric surgery when combined with dietary and exercise changes would give highly significant results in terms of both weight reduction and knee pain in overweight and morbidly obese OA patients making a way to delay the need for knee replacement.

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