Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Nutritional status denotes your health status. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues guage 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). Rosenberg Wellness Center can discover much about the nutritional status of a New York City chiropractic patient during the initial clinical New York City 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 New York City post-surgical healing and lessen New York City post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good marker of your New York City 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 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%). Pre-operative nutritional status is an independent risk factor for re-admission after spine surgery that can certainly be addressed before a surgical intervention. (2) Rosenberg Wellness Center can help you get a New York City blood test to check your levels. Rosenberg Wellness Center looks at statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our New York City chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Rosenberg Wellness Center is ready to help improve 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 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 may not seem great for the hospital care, they did put the hospital on notice to do more to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Rosenberg Wellness Center looks for ways to preempt New York City health issues by checking for them in advance!
Rosenberg Wellness Center certainly wants to help New York City back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Rosenberg Wellness Center is also effective at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Rosenberg Wellness Center is ready to cooperate with New York City back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery at bay whenever feasible. 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 potential healing if surgery is called for as well as when a non-surgical healing approach is used.
Rely on Rosenberg Wellness Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your New York City nutritional status guide.
