Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing

Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues guage 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). Layden Chiropractic can discover much about the nutritional status of a Plainville chiropractic patient during the first clinical Plainville chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to take care of 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 help Plainville post-surgical healing and reduce Plainville post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!

One effective way to check your Plainville 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 – demonstrate a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients who have 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 influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can deal with before the surgery. (2) Layden Chiropractic can help you get a Plainville blood test to check your levels. Layden Chiropractic considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Plainville chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Layden Chiropractic is prepared 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 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’s not 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 present with a known risk before surgery. Layden Chiropractic looks for ways to preempt Plainville health issues by checking for them in advance!

Layden Chiropractic certainly wants to help Plainville back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Layden Chiropractic is also good at helping our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Layden Chiropractic is ready to cooperate with Plainville back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It’s not always an easy path to a healthy nutritional status, but it is 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 used.

Rely on Layden Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Plainville nutritional status guide.