A Well-Nourished Sitka Spine Heals Better
Nutritional status denotes your health status. 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). Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a Sitka chiropractic patient during the first clinical Sitka chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that pop up particularly in patients who may be at risk for a back surgery or any other surgical intervention for that matter. A good pre-surgical nutritional status will assist Sitka post-surgical healing and lessen Sitka post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Sitka nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status affects 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, particularly 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, 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%). 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka can coordinate a Sitka blood test to check your levels. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our Sitka chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is prepared to help raise 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 influential roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who were nutritionally at-risk received 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 did not place 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. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka searches for ways to address Sitka health issues by looking for them in advance!
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka looks to help Sitka back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is also good at assisting our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to cooperate with Sitka back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery at bay when possible. It is not always an easy path 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.
Rely on Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Sitka nutritional status guide.
