This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! Joint pain, especially in the knees and hips, is an area of healthcare where fat people face tremendous misinformation and discrimination. Often any joint pain that higher weight patients have gets immediately blamed on their body size, and they are prescribed weight loss as a “cure.” Tragically, these same patients are often barred from ethical, evidence-based treatments by unnecessary BMI/ weight limits.
This is absolutely what has happened to me with 2 orthopaedic surgeons. I luckily persevered and found a surgeon who was not weight biased and operated on my knee that had a bucket handle tear, I was on crutches for 5 months due to the injury, one I sustained on a bike ride, something I do at least 3 times a week. The other surgeons refused to see my good health and exercise habits, one even sent me to a bariatric surgeon... I was horrified!
I'm Still recovering and have difficulty straightening my knee because treatment was delayed for so long!
This is absolutely what has happened to me with 2 orthopaedic surgeons. I luckily persevered and found a surgeon who was not weight biased and operated on my knee that had a bucket handle tear, I was on crutches for 5 months due to the injury, one I sustained on a bike ride, something I do at least 3 times a week. The other surgeons refused to see my good health and exercise habits, one even sent me to a bariatric surgeon... I was horrified!
I'm Still recovering and have difficulty straightening my knee because treatment was delayed for so long!
Thankyou for this article