A Well-Nourished Manahawkin Spine Heals Better
Nutritional status denotes your health status. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues determine 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). Manahawkin Chiropractic Center can discover much about the nutritional status of a Manahawkin chiropractic patient during the first clinical Manahawkin chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that are uncovered 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 Manahawkin post-surgical healing and decrease Manahawkin post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good marker of your Manahawkin 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 – demonstrate a malnourished state and are predictive of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Low albumin concentrations in patients 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 deal with before the surgery. (2) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center can coordinate a Manahawkin blood test to check your levels. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our Manahawkin chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is prepared to help improve your nutritional status for best 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 received 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 didn’t put the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to be more aware and ready to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center looks for ways to address Manahawkin health issues by checking for them early on!
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center looks to help Manahawkin back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is also effective at directing our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is prepared to cooperate with Manahawkin back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay whenever feasible. It is not always an easy journey 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.
Count on Manahawkin Chiropractic Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Manahawkin nutritional status guide.
