Obesity and Joint Replacement Surgery
We have written before about how obesity is a risk factor for knee conditions, and in this article we cover an associated topic – how obesity affects joint replacement surgery.
We have written before about how obesity is a risk factor for knee conditions, and in this article we cover an associated topic – how obesity affects joint replacement surgery.
As we've written about before, joint replacement and particularly knee replacement procedures are on the rise in Australia and around the world.
Obesity is a risk factor for many medical conditions, and this is also the case for conditions affecting the knees.