A Well-Nourished Fernandina Beach Spine Heals Better
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues rate 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). Amelia Chiropractic Clinic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Fernandina Beach chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Fernandina Beach chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that pop up 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 Fernandina Beach post-surgical healing and lessen Fernandina Beach post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Fernandina Beach nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status influences postsurgical healing and outcomes. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – mark a malnourished state and are predictive of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly 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 surely be addressed before a surgical intervention. (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic can help you get a Fernandina Beach blood test to check your levels. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is prepared to help maximize 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 had nutritional risk received nutritional support while admitted to 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 good for the hospital care, they did put the hospital on notice to be more aware and ready to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic searches for ways to prevent Fernandina Beach health issues by checking for them in advance!
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic looks to help Fernandina Beach back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is also good at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as required. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is ready to work with Fernandina Beach back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It is 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 chosen.
Rely on Amelia Chiropractic Clinic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Fernandina Beach nutritional status guide.
