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). Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Groton chiropractic patient during the first clinical Groton chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that are uncovered especially 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 facilitate Groton post-surgical healing and diminish Groton post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good marker of your Groton nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status shares postsurgical healing and outcomes. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – demonstrate a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Low albumin concentrations in patients before surgery had higher rates of having 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%). Pre-operative nutritional status is an independent risk factor for re-admission after spine surgery that can certainly be remedied before a surgical intervention. (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office can help you get a Groton blood test to check your levels. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office looks at statistics like this and appreciates how important nutrition is for our Groton chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is prepared to help raise your nutritional status for optimum 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 influential 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 is not very good! (3) While these stats may not seem great for the hospital care, they did alert the hospital to do more to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office searches for ways to prevent Groton health issues by looking for them in advance!
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office certainly wants to help Groton back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is also effective at directing our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is poised to cooperate with Groton back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery at bay when possible. 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 Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Groton nutritional status guide.
