Does Being Overweight Always Cause Damage to the Knees?

Does Being Overweight Always Cause Damage to the Knees? (0:28)

There is a correlation between obesity and arthritis, says HealthMaker Andrew Feldman, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center. In this video, he explains that the correlation isn't necessarily one to one.

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[BLANK_AUDIO] Well, what`s amazing is, you know I always tell my patient for many reasons like you got lose weight, you got to do this whatever and every once in a while you are going to a person who is just morbidly obese to fix the meniscus or something because you are having a lot of pain and they have no arthritis, and it's like a perfectly baby's knee and so there's obviously is a correlation, but it is not a one on one correlation.

Andrew Feldman, MD

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About Andrew Feldman, MD

Andrew Feldman, MD is the Director of Sports Medicine at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan and the Chief Physician for the New York Rangers.

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