Abstracts tagged "knee pain"

Abstract Number: 2194 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Surgical and Medical Weight Loss Threshold Dictates Decreases in Knee Osteoarthritis Pain but Not Reductions in Inflammatory Biomarkers
Fernando Bomfim¹, Shannon Chen ¹, Stephen Zak ², Taylor Jazrawi ¹, Madeline Kundler ², Vivienne Qie ², Laura Peralta ², Jose Aleman ², Christine Ren-Fielding ², Holly Lofton ², Jyoti Patel ², Mukundan Attur ³, Steven B. Abramson ³ and Jonathan Samuels ¹, ¹NYU Langone Health, New York, ²NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ³NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York City, NY
Background/Purpose: Weight loss in obese patients can reduce knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain, even when physical therapy and intra-articular injections have failed. The impacts of either…