Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Nutritional status denotes your health status. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues determine 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). OrthoIllinois Chiropractic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a McHenry chiropractic patient during the first clinical McHenry chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that pop up 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 help McHenry post-surgical healing and diminish McHenry post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your McHenry nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status influences 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, particularly for patients who undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients with low albumin concentrations 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, 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 affected by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic can help you get a McHenry blood test to check your levels. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic considers statistics like this and appreciates how important nutrition is for our McHenry chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready to help maximize 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 significant roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who were nutritionally at-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 didn’t put the hospital care in a good light, they did put the hospital on notice to do more to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic looks for ways to address McHenry health issues by looking for them early on!
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic certainly wants to help McHenry back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is also good at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is prepared to cooperate with McHenry back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It is not always an easy path to a healthy nutritional status, but it is a valuable 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.
Rely on OrthoIllinois Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your McHenry nutritional status guide.
