Musculoskeletal Pain & Obesity
Obesity Study Aim
Obesity is associated with musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis. This
obesity study compares the prevalence of work-restricting musculoskeletal
pain in an obese and a general population and investigates changes in
the incidence of and recovery from musculoskeletal pain after bariatric
surgery or conventional obesity treatment.
Obesity Study Method
A random sample of 1135 subjects from a general population was compared
with 6328 obese subjects in the Swedish obese subjects (SOS) study. For
the obese subjects, information about musculoskeletal pain was also collected
2 and 6 years after obesity surgery or the start of non-surgical treatment.
Obesity Results
In both sexes, self-reported work-restricting pain in the neck and back
area and in the hip, knee and ankle joints was more common in the obese
subjects than in the general population. Operated obese women had a lower
incidence of work-restricting pain in the knee and ankle joints compared
with the conventionally treated control group over 2 and 6 years. Among
subjects reporting symptoms at baseline, the recovery rate for pain in
the knee and ankle joints in men and pain in the neck and back and in
the hip, knee and ankle joints in women improved in the surgical group
compared with the control group after 2 years.
Obesity Study Conclusion
Obese subjects have more problems with work-restricting musculoskeletal
pain than the general population. Surgical obesity treatment reduces the
long-term risk of developing work-restricting musculoskeletal pain and
increases the likelihood of recovering from such pain.
Source: International Association for the
Study of Pain
Markku Peltonen, Anna Karin Lindroos and Jarl S. Torgerson.
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