Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues determine nutritional status. “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). Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a Manchester chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Manchester chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to deal with 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 facilitate Manchester post-surgical healing and diminish Manchester post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Manchester 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. 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, 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 deal with before the surgery. (2) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries can help you get a Manchester blood test to check your levels. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our Manchester chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is prepared to help improve your nutritional status for optimum 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 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’s not good! (3) While these stats did not put the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to be more aware and ready to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries searches for ways to address Manchester health issues by looking for them early on!
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries certainly wants to help Manchester back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is also effective at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is poised to work with Manchester 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’s 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.
Rely on Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Manchester nutritional status guide.
