More and more people suffer from obesity. The consequences of this are overweight and pathologically high body fat percentage. Overweight leads to increased risk of developing different chronic diseases. Our specialists have many years of experience in surgical treatment of obesity, which is confirmed by the inclusion of Helios in the lists of the best clinics for patients with obesity in Germany according to Focus magazine for several consecutive years.
In case of obesity or pathological overweight, we will guide you on your way to health. As a certified competence center for bariatric surgery, we specialize in surgical therapy as a long-term effective method of weight loss - all within the framework of individual therapy.
Many women suffer for years from pain, swelling, and the feeling that their body does not match their lifestyle — often without knowing that a chronic disease is behind it. On the occasion of World Lipedema Day on May 18, the two Helios chief physicians, Prof. Knut Kröger (Angiology) and Dr. Truong Quang Vu Phan (Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery), are drawing attention to a chronic disease that predo…
Dr.med. Oliver Stumpf, the Chief Physician of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Department at Helios Berlin-Buch, tells about wide-spreading obesity problem and about bariatric surgery as the most effective solution.
Approximately 70 percent of all obesity interventions are tubular stomach operations, i.e. sleeve gastrectomies. This is because patients cope well with the operation and the risks are low.
Adiposity, i.e. pathological overweight, and its consequences diabetes and high blood pressure are chronic diseases. Medical treatment is extremely important. The first step is actually three: change your diet, do more sports, change your behavior.
The causes of morbid obesity are very complex and must be considered as "multifactorial". This means that not only the wrong dietary habits and lack of physical exercise are responsible for obesity, but that metabolic processes and genetic causes must also be considered very important for the evolution of the disease.
Before deciding to undergo surgery, all conservative, i.e. non-surgical, therapies should be used. Our patient program ObesityVital can also help you with this. When is an operation approved?
At some point André Sankowski had enough of his overweight. Lethargic, depressed, dissatisfied: he no longer wanted to live like this. In 2014, he decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery - and began to turn his life around. We asked how he is doing today.
Unfortunately, in many cases a conservative therapy isn’t successful. The interdisciplinary team at the Helios Center for Obesity and Metabolic Health helps patients to reduce weight with a long term outcome and to treat secondary diseases through surgery.
Helios is one of Europe's leading hospital networks, with more than 80 hospitals and over 80,000 employees providing high-quality medical care. In Germany, the Helios network comprises more than 80 hospitals, around 200 Medical Care Centres (MVZs, outpatient m…
We offer you not only physiotherapy and equipment training, but also prevention courses, pre-rehabilitation, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, occupational therapy and pre-operative training - all in all, a comprehensive range of treatments that is seco…
