A Well-Nourished Ashburn and Herndon Spine Heals Better
Nutritional status denotes your health status. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues determine 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). Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn can discover much about the nutritional status of a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to take care of 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 help Ashburn and Herndon post-surgical healing and lessen Ashburn and Herndon post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Ashburn and Herndon nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers discuss how nutritional status shares postsurgical healing and outcomes. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – demonstrate a malnourished state and are indicative 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, malnourished patients accounted for 28% 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn can help you get a Ashburn and Herndon blood test to check your levels. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is ready to help maximize your nutritional status for optimum 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 had nutritional 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’s not good! (3) While these stats didn’t place the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to be more cognizant and ready to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn looks for ways to preempt Ashburn and Herndon health issues by looking for them early on!
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn certainly wants to help Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is also good at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is prepared to work with Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay whenever possible. It is not always an easy journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s 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 chosen.
Count on Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Ashburn and Herndon nutritional status guide.
