Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Nutritional status is measured by many factors: serum levels, weight, and other issues. “ABCD” are factors taken into account – Anthropomorphic status (weight/body), Biochemical (blood tests), Clinical (how well the body functions work as checked by a physician) and Dietary (what you eat). Pure Chiropractic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Concord, NC chiropractic patient during the first clinical Concord, NC chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that pop up particularly in patients who may be susceptible to a back surgery or any other surgical intervention for that matter. A good pre-surgical nutritional status will assist Concord, NC post-surgical healing and lessen Concord, NC post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good sign of your Concord, NC nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status influences postsurgical healing and outcomes. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – indicate a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients who have low albumin concentrations before surgery had higher rates of experiencing any major postoperative complication(s) like pulmonary, cardiac and reoperation as well as longer stays in the hospital. (1) In one study, malnourished patients accounted for 28% were found to be malnourished and more likely to have a postoperative complication and a longer hospital stay (8.67 days instead of 3.8 days). 14.48% of these spine surgery patients were re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Malnourished patients’ re-admission rate (27.5%) was three times that of nourished patients (9.52%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) Pure Chiropractic can coordinate a Concord, NC blood test to check your levels. Pure Chiropractic considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Concord, NC chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Pure Chiropractic is prepared to help improve your nutritional status for best healing preoperatively, postoperatively and back surgery-preventatively!
Lastly, in a study of spine surgery patients in an orthopedic hospital, nutritional status was obtained when they were admitted and discharged via the Nutritional Risk Score 2002. It was found that nutritional status – nutritional risk, malnutrition, overweight and obesity – and nutritional support at the hospital after surgery play significant roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who had nutritional risk received nutritional support while staying in the hospital. These nutritional status factors changed: nutritional risk increased from 11.6% to 19.4%; malnutrition status increased from 12.7% to 20.6%; overweight status decreased from 35.9% to 31.0%; and obesity status reduced from 7.41% to 5.79%. Bottomline: the incidence of nutritional risk and malnutrition increased significantly. That is not very good! (3) While these stats may not seem good for the hospital care, they did alert the hospital to be more aware and ready to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Pure Chiropractic looks for ways to address Concord, NC health issues by looking for them early on!
Pure Chiropractic certainly wants to help Concord, NC back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Pure Chiropractic is also good at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. Pure Chiropractic is poised to work with Concord, NC back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay when possible. It’s not always a simple journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it is a worthy one for your physical body’s health and potential healing if surgery is called for as well as when a non-surgical healing approach is used.
Count on Pure Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Concord, NC nutritional status guide.
