The effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on head, neck, shoulder, low back and knee pain of female patients

Cakir T., ORUÇ M. S., Aslaner A., Duygun F., Yardimci E. C., Mayir B., ...Daha Fazla

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, cilt.8, sa.2, ss.2668-2673, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2668-2673
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, pain, lumbar spine, knee, VAS, female, OBESE-PATIENTS, WEIGHT-LOSS, MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN, OSTEOARTHRITIS, REDUCTION, BENEFITS
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

As the rise on the prevalence of obesity, it is related with physical impairment of joints, especially in the lumbar spine and knee joints. Losing body weight can reduce or eliminate pain of head, neck, shoulder, lumbar spine and knees. By performing a laparoscopic bariatric surgery we demonstrated a significant improvement on the pain by body weight reduction. In this study we aimed to explore the efficacy and safety of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) on the relief of pain on head and neck, shoulder, low back and knee among the severely morbid obese female patients. A total of 39 morbidly obese female patients who underwent LSG for morbid obesity were included in this study. Body weight, height, body mass index (BMI), head and neck, shoulder, low back and knee pain intensity were measured with Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before and after LSG at the 6th month. 39 morbidly obese female patients were enrolled to this study. The mean age of the patients was 37.69 +/- 11.33 years. Preoperative and postoperative body weights were 127.3 kg and 91.21 kg, respectively. Mean height was 165.23 +/- 5.78 cm. Preoperative and postoperative BMIs were 46.49 kg/m(2) and 32.33 kg/m(2), respectively. A significant correlation between preoperative and postoperative parameters was found according to BMI. Our data showed that LSG is an efficient and safe procedure on severely obese patients and showed a predictive remission of head and neck, shoulder, low back and knee pain intensity of female patients by analyzing with VAS during the first 6 months.