Behind each case there is a person, a life and many factors that make them gain weight

At the they are specialists in methods to combat obesity. For its professionals, the most important thing is to analyze each specific case, see the factors that make a person have gained weight, treat them from the most human and medical point of view in order, together with them, to be able to help them regain their lives.

What surgical interventions exist today to combat obesity? Broadly speaking, what does each one consist of?

In our Obesity unit we have the most advanced surgical treatments, we perform techniques such as: Big of 3, 6.12 months, Pose Method, Apollo Method, Aspire Method, Gastric Band, Gastric Sleeve and Gastric Baypass. All these treatments must always be accompanied by a two-year follow-up with a team of psychologists, nutritionists and doctors who will make you change your habits, which will help our patients to maintain that weight loss over time.

How do you evaluate which one is the most appropriate for each patient?

The patient is evaluated by the entire medical team, in which both surgeons and doctors, psychologists, nutritionist and personal trainer participate who will accompany him in this weight loss. Thus, we will know what the reasons have been that have led this patient to gain weight and they will be able to adapt the patient the most appropriate treatment to their lifestyle, health problems, starting BMI …

All this set of factors lead the team to decide which of all the surgical treatments or not is the most appropriate for each person. We seek to personalize the treatment so that the patient can and truly enjoy that weight loss and that wonderful change in his life.

What candidates are the ideal ones to carry out these interventions?

The candidates can vary according to the degree of obesity of each one of them. Patients who have failed with treatments such as diets, patients whose medical pathologies indicate that they should lose weight, patients who have undergone some previous treatment and have not been able to maintain that weight loss, diabetic patients, many could be listed different types of patients since obesity is a serious disease that is associated with a large number of very serious pathologies.

How is the support of the clinic throughout the weight loss process?

Our clinic team and medical team accompany the patient at all times of this process so that everything is done as natural as possible, we are with them in the hospital and throughout the follow-up during the following 2 years. They always have the telephones of the entire team in order to be totally sure that there will be no small mishap in which they are alone, the follow-up of these patients the first year is weekly or biweekly depending on the treatment that has been carried out or according to the medical or psychological pathologies of each one of them. It is very important to personalize these treatments in order to achieve success that, beyond losing weight, is being able to maintain that loss over time.

How do you ensure that the patient adopts a new lifestyle and does not fall into the rebound effect once the whole process is finished?

We have been treating obesity for more than 15 years. Everything indicates that the patient who does not undergo a well-done post-surgical treatment with a multidisciplinary team in which for two years much emphasis is placed on all the changes that must be carried out, can regain weight, hence the importance of correct monitoring.

What is the reaction of the patients at the end of the process?

Their reaction is fantastic and their phrase “I should have done it a lot sooner” is what really fills us, being able to see the fantastic changes they experience.

Behind these cases there are only food factors or are there others that influence?

Behind each case there is a person, a life and a lot of factors that make that person have gained that weight, it is necessary to know how to treat each of these factors from the most human and medical point of view in order, together with them, to help them get their lives back.