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Sep
Overcoming Anxiety Before Weight Loss Surgery
Even when undergoing a procedure already tried out through and through like the Gastric Sleeve or the Gastric Plication, some patients arrive with a nervous and anxious look in their faces. Even in today's age where information is at our fingertips in our cell pho...
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Sep
Breathing: The Key to a Quick Recovery after Bariatric Surgery
When patients visit our center, they come in with an assorted amount of information prior to surgery, but they often forget one simple tool for recovery that's as easy as breathing. Meet the spirometerIt’s easy to use because, that’s all you do! Breathe! Most p...
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Sep
Restrict Caffeine After Bariatric Surgery
People who are morbidly obese may choose bariatric surgery as a means to lose excess weight. Surgical approaches for weight loss surgery include gastric bypass, Roux-en-Y, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding or a gastric sleeve surgery. Each type of surgery poses special diet...
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Sep
How to Avoid Gastric Sleeve Failure After Your Weight Loss Surgery
Research suggests 20-30% of patients either do not achieve their weight loss goals or regain weight after bariatric surgery. How can you make sure you are not included in this stats? You´ll first need to follow a diet and exercise as recommended by an expert on gastric slee...
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Sep
Gastric Sleeve Surgery, Walk to Recovery
Patients that resume walking as soon as possible after weight loss surgery have shown a much better recovery process the first day, than those who delay in doing so. Given the fact that walking helps patients eliminate the effects of the narcotics used in anesthesia, and also in...
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Sep
Obesity Control Center and Dr Ariel Ortiz Awarded Center of Excellence Designation by the U.S.A.
RALEIGH, NC - Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) announced the first centers in Mexico to achieve the center of excellence designation. The Obesity Control Center in Tijuana successfully completed a rigorous review process to ensure compliance with the requi...
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Sep
IFSO: World Meeting on Weight Loss Surgery
This year's most important Weight-loss Surgery meeting was held in the beautiful city of Hamburg, Germany . Many of the most recognized leaders in the Bariatric Surgery field were present during this whole week event. The scientific program included the latest research...
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Sep
What to Do When a Lap Band Fails
When a weight loss procedure fails it is both personally discouraging and it can create significant health issues. There is absolutely no reason you should settle for this. That's why Obesity Control Center has developed a proven solution. for failed lap-band surgery. Here...
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