Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues rate nutritional status. “ABCD” are factors considered – Anthropomorphic status (weight/body), Biochemical (blood tests), Clinical (how well the body functions work as checked by a physician) and Dietary (what you eat). Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. can discover much about the nutritional status of a Auburn chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Auburn chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that are uncovered 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 Auburn post-surgical healing and lessen Auburn post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Auburn nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status affects postsurgical outcomes and healing. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – mark a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Low albumin concentrations in patients 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, 28% of patients 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) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. can help you get a Auburn blood test to check your levels. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Auburn chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is ready to help maximize your nutritional status for best healing preoperatively, postoperatively and back surgery-preventatively!
Lastly, the nutritional status of spine surgery patients at an orthopedic hospital was gathered using the Nutritional Risk Score 2002 at admission and discharge. Their 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 were nutritionally at-risk got nutritional support while admitted to 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’s not good! (3) While these stats didn’t put the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to be more cognizant and ready to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. searches for ways to prevent Auburn health issues by looking for them early on!
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. looks to help Auburn back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is also good at helping our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is poised to work with Auburn back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It is not always a simple journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s a worthy one for your physical body’s health and future healing if surgery is called for as well as when a non-surgical healing approach is chosen.
Count on Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C., your back pain specialty practice, to be your Auburn nutritional status guide.
