The McLaren Weight Management Center is made up of a specially trained team of healthcare professionals consisting of physicians, dieticians, behaviorists, nurses, and exercise specialists. The center has been treating patients for over 13 years. An important part of an obese patient's success with losing weight and keeping it off will depend on being able to overcome any psychological and behavioral roadblocks. Candidates for bariatric surgery must complete a pre-operative evaluation with a Health Psychologist, which involves extensive testing. This surgery is not a quick fix, it is a long term behavior change for patients, they need to have these things up front to be considered a promising candidate.
Great care is taken by a team of physicians to properly select patients for bariatric surgery.
The most common bariatric procedures restrict food intake. This is not meant to be a reversible surgery, it is meant to be permanent. Patients need the Weight Management Center to help them before, and after the surgery, because of the dramatic change it will make to their life. For more information about McLaren Weight Management services, click here.