Weight Management Services
The Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers another option for teens faced with clinically severe obesity -- gastric bypass surgery. We also provide:
- Thorough medical evaluation
- Psychological evaluation
- Surgical consultation and evaluation
- Minimally invasive bariatric surgery
- Personalized nutritional and exercise programs
- Encouragement and emotional support
- Long-term follow-up, including medical, physical and nutritional evaluation
Bariatric surgery alone does not cure obesity; it's only a tool. When bariatric surgery is used correctly, it can result in the lifelong loss of more than half of excess body weight and the improvement or disappearance of many obesity-related diseases.
The Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology works with prospective patients in assessing whether undergoing bariatric surgery is an appropriate choice for them.
