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). Spine & Sports Rehab Center can deduce
lots about the nutritional status of a Baton Rouge
chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Baton Rouge
chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to deal with 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
Baton Rouge post-surgical healing and lessen
Baton Rouge post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good indicator of your
Baton Rouge nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers
discuss how nutritional status influences
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, especially for patients who undergo
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, 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) Spine & Sports Rehab Center can coordinate
a Baton Rouge blood test to check your levels. Spine & Sports Rehab Center considers statistics like this and appreciates how
important nutrition is for our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients’ health
and healing as well as their spine care. Spine & Sports Rehab Center is ready
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 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 is not very good! (3)
While these stats may not seem good
for the hospital care, they did put the hospital on
notice to do more to
help these patients who present
with a known risk before surgery. Spine & Sports Rehab Center searches for
ways to prevent Baton Rouge health issues by looking
for them in advance!
Spine & Sports Rehab Center looks to help Baton Rouge back pain patients stay away from
back surgery if possible, and Spine & Sports Rehab Center is also good at helping
our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical
shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Spine & Sports Rehab Center
is prepared to work with Baton Rouge
back pain patients who want to get into good shape 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 chosen.
Rely on Spine & Sports Rehab Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Baton Rouge nutritional status guide.
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