EFFICACY OF FAT MOBILIZATION SYSTEM (FMS) IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITYAND ITS UTILITY IN THE RESOLUTION OF GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO OVERWEIGHT

In industrialised countries the problem of overweight affects more tha n 50% of the adult population. Knowledge acquired over the past years has replaced the principally esthetic concept of obesity with the noti on of a multifactorial pathology, the outcome of an imbalance in the i ndividual's energy balance caused by an excessive food intake as well as an inadequate energy consumption. The Fat Mobilisation System (FMS) , which is able to activate a fat clearance process following cold loc al application, has proved a valuable and well tolerated tool capable of influencing the entire system responsible for obesity. A group of 1 09 patients of both sexes, aged between 15 and 71 years old, with prob lems of overweight and/or figure faults linked to the localised accumu lation of fat, underwent out-patient treatment in the form of bandagin g with elasticated bandages soaked in active solution able to lower bo dy temperature by 2-3 degrees C. The results were satisfactory in all cases. In particular, a group of 24 women (10 of a childbearing age, 7 in premenopause and 7 in menopause); in whom overweight was associate d with gynecological problems, were evaluated by Department A of the D epartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Turin. An improvement in gynecological symptoms was achieved in parallel to weig ht loss in all patients.