Nutritional Status Affects Spine Healing
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Nutritional status is measured by many factors: serum levels, weight, and other issues. “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). Satterwhite Chiropractic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Oxford chiropractic patient during the first clinical Oxford chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that pop up particularly 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 facilitate Oxford post-surgical healing and reduce Oxford post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good indicator of your Oxford nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status shares postsurgical outcomes and healing. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – mark a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly 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%). 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic can help you get a Oxford blood test to check your levels. Satterwhite Chiropractic looks at statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Oxford chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Satterwhite Chiropractic is ready to help improve your nutritional status for best 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 were nutritionally at-risk got 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 is not very good! (3) While these stats may not seem good for the hospital care, they did alert the hospital to be more cognizant and ready to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Satterwhite Chiropractic searches for ways to address Oxford health issues by looking for them early on!
Satterwhite Chiropractic certainly wants to help Oxford back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Satterwhite Chiropractic is also effective at helping our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Satterwhite Chiropractic is ready to work with Oxford 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 is 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 Satterwhite Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Oxford nutritional status guide.
