A Well-Nourished Juneau Spine Heals Better
Nutritional status indicates your health status. Nutritional status is measured by a mix of 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). Aurora Chiropractic Center can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a Juneau chiropractic patient during the first clinical Juneau chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that are uncovered 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 Juneau post-surgical healing and decrease Juneau post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Juneau nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status affects 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 experience 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%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) Aurora Chiropractic Center can help you get a Juneau blood test to check your levels. Aurora Chiropractic Center considers statistics like this and appreciates how important nutrition is for our Juneau chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Aurora Chiropractic Center is prepared to help raise 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 significant roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who were nutritionally at-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 did not place the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to be more cognizant and ready to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Aurora Chiropractic Center searches for ways to address Juneau health issues by looking for them in advance!
Aurora Chiropractic Center certainly wants to help Juneau back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Aurora Chiropractic Center is also effective at helping our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. Aurora Chiropractic Center is ready to cooperate with Juneau back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay whenever feasible. It is not always a simple journey 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 Aurora Chiropractic Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Juneau nutritional status guide.
