Team Highlights Need to Probe Exercise Benefits Post Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery, as surgeons will tell you, is just one tool of many in the battle against obesity.

Recent research released by teams at Hartford Hospital and the University of Connecticut reinforce the value of exercise as soon as possible after bariatric surgery as a way to ensure the patient’s long-term success.

“We tell people surgery isn’t a magical cure for obesity, that it’s one tool in their fight,” says Pavlos Papasavas, MD, a bariatric surgeon and director of surgical research at Hartford Hospital, and part of the recent collaborative research.

Learn what else he shared here.