Virtual reality in the treatment of body image disturbances after bariatric surgery: A clinical case

Giuseppe Riva; Georgina Cárdenas-López; Ximena Duran; Gonzalo M. Torres-Villalobos; Andrea Gaggioli

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-121-2-278

Virtual reality in the treatment of body image disturbances after bariatric surgery: A clinical case

Giuseppe Riva, Georgina Cárdenas-López, Ximena Duran, Gonzalo M. Torres-Villalobos, Andrea Gaggioli

Fondazione Istituto Auxologico Italiano

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Abstract

Bariatric surgery is an operation on the stomach and/or intestines that helps patients with extreme obesity to lose weight. Even if bariatric surgery, compared with traditional obesity treatment, is more effective in reducing BMI, this approach does not achieve equal results in every patient. More, following bariatric surgery common problems are body image dissatisfaction and body disparagement: there is a significant difference between the weight loss clinicians consider successful (50% of excess weight) and the weight loss potential patients expect to achieve (at least 67% of the excess weight). The paper discusses the possible role of virtual reality (VR) in addressing this problem within an integrated treatment approach. More, the clinical case of a female bariatric patient who experienced body dissatisfaction even after a 30% body weight loss and a 62% excess body weight loss, is presented and discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	278-282
Number of pages	5
Volume	181
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-121-2-278
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Allocentric Lock Theory
Bariatric Surgery
Body Image Dissatisfaction
Clinical Case
Virtual Reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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