[Rehabilitation: a case for obese patients?].
In the word obesity, a clinical concept of chronic systemic disease pairs up with pejorative individual or social representations. Being obese is also facing situations of disability, organ failure, uncertainty of the fate and stigmatization. A care concept inspired by rehabilitation and therapeutic patient education could offer a new way and other purposes to the treatment of obesity. Restoring functions, learning how to adapt and change their environment, obese people may live better today, out of their isolation and develop partners in their projects of life and health. Rehabilitation of an obese patient is much more than weight loss!
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Sittarame
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Lagger
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Chambouleyron
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Lasserre-Moutet
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Joly
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Vergotte
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Pataky
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Golay
D015992:Body Mass Index; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D013240:Stereotyping; D015431:Weight Loss