A Well-Nourished Williamson Spine Heals Better
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). Apple Country Chiropractic can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Williamson chiropractic patient during the first clinical Williamson chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that are uncovered especially 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 Williamson post-surgical healing and diminish Williamson post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Williamson 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 indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients with low albumin concentrations 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%). Pre-operative nutritional status is an independent risk factor for re-admission after spine surgery that can surely be remedied before a surgical intervention. (2) Apple Country Chiropractic can coordinate a Williamson blood test to check your levels. Apple Country Chiropractic considers statistics like this and appreciates how important nutrition is for our Williamson chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Apple Country Chiropractic is ready to help maximize your nutritional status for optimal 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 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 great for the hospital care, they did put the hospital on notice to be more aware and ready to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Apple Country Chiropractic looks for ways to address Williamson health issues by looking for them in advance!
Apple Country Chiropractic looks to help Williamson back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Apple Country Chiropractic is also good at helping our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Apple Country Chiropractic is prepared to cooperate with Williamson back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery at bay whenever possible. It is not always an easy 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 Apple Country Chiropractic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Williamson nutritional status guide.
