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). Moses Chiropractic can discover much about the nutritional status of a West Palm Beach
chiropractic patient during the initial clinical West Palm Beach
chiropractic examination and establish 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 help
West Palm Beach post-surgical healing and lessen
West Palm Beach post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your West Palm Beach
nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers
talk about how nutritional status affects
postsurgical outcomes and healing. Specifically, hypoalbumin
levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – indicate a
malnourished state and are predictive of post-surgical
recovery complication rates, especially for patients who undergo
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients with 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, 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 surely be remedied before a
surgical intervention. (2) Moses Chiropractic can help you get
a West Palm Beach blood test to check your levels. Moses Chiropractic looks
at statistics like this and sees how
important nutrition is for our West Palm Beach chiropractic patients’ health
and healing as well as their spine care. Moses 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 had nutritional 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. Moses Chiropractic searches for
ways to prevent West Palm Beach health issues by looking
for them in advance!
Moses Chiropractic looks to help West Palm Beach back pain patients avoid
back surgery if possible, and Moses Chiropractic is also effective at assisting
our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical
shape before and after surgery as needed. Moses Chiropractic
is poised to cooperate with West Palm Beach
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
is a admirable 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 Moses Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your West Palm Beach nutritional status guide.