Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing

Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues rate 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). Wilson Family Chiropractic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Millville chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Millville chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that pop up especially 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 help Millville post-surgical healing and decrease Millville post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!

One test that is a good marker of your Millville nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status affects postsurgical outcomes and healing. 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 with 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, 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 affected by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) Wilson Family Chiropractic can help you get a Millville blood test to check your levels. Wilson Family Chiropractic looks at statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Millville chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Wilson Family Chiropractic 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 influential 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 is not very good! (3) While these stats did not place the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to do more to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Wilson Family Chiropractic searches for ways to preempt Millville health issues by checking for them in advance!

Wilson Family Chiropractic looks to help Millville back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Wilson Family Chiropractic is also effective at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Wilson Family Chiropractic is poised to cooperate with Millville back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay whenever feasible. It’s not always a simple journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s 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.

Count on Wilson Family Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Millville nutritional status guide.