Top Benefits of Weight Loss Injections for Long-Term Success

Do your joints hurt? Joint pain often begins and is exacerbated by being overweight or obese. You’ve heard that losing weight can relieve joint pain, but you haven’t succeeded in previous weight loss journeys. The new weight loss drug semaglutide can improve your quality of life by helping you lose excess weight contributing to your joint pain. 

Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jonathan Shults with Coastal Empire Orthopedics offers semaglutide injections that help you take off excess weight and turn previous weight loss failure into long-term weight loss success. You’ll experience the following benefits from our medically supervised weight loss approach using semaglutide injections. 

Suppresses food cravings and appetite 

Perhaps your weight loss efforts in the past weren’t successful in stopping your food cravings. Whether you had an irresistible urge for chips, ice cream, or other calorie-laden food, you couldn’t control it and consistently overate. 

You now have an effective aid in controlling your appetite. Semaglutide injections control your food cravings by targeting hormones that affect your appetite. When taking the injections, you lose the desire to overeat. You’re free of those overpowering food cravings. Once you start consuming normal food servings, you begin to lose weight.   

More effective long-term results than other weight loss methods

There have been innumerable weight loss diets over the years. Many patients end up yo-yo dieting — losing weight and then gaining it all back again. Studies on semaglutide show patients’ progressive and sustained weight loss over several years. The drug targets the hormones that have contributed to your overconsumption. 

Helps slow cartilage degeneration  

When you’re overweight or obese, your cartilage, the tough tissue that cushions your joints, begins to tear apart and degenerate prematurely. Studies show that overweight and obese patients with osteoarthritis in the knees who lost weight showed significantly less cartilage degeneration than those who didn’t lose weight. Patients who lost more weight had the lowest rates of cartilage deterioration. 

Eases pressure on joints, relieving pain 

Your knees are under pressure every time you stand or are engaged in a physical activity. Numerous studies provide evidence that losing weight eases joint pain. Losing 10 pounds can relieve 40 pounds of pressure on your knees, so losing 100 pounds eases 400 pounds. Now that you know, you have a great motivator to lose the extra weight once and for all. 

Improves overall health

Perhaps the best long-term benefit of losing weight is the benefit to general health. Semaglutide helps lower blood sugar levels and often leads to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol readings. These indicators lower your risk of a cardiovascular event, diabetes, or other chronic health conditions. 

Call Coastal Empire Orthopedics or book an appointment online today. We can help you improve your joint health by offering a successful weight loss plan.