Nutritional status marks your
health status. 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). Vancouver Spine Care Centre can discover much about the nutritional status of a Vancouver
chiropractic patient during the first clinical Vancouver
chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to deal with any nutritional concerns that pop
up particularly 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 facilitate
Vancouver post-surgical healing and reduce
Vancouver post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good sign of your
Vancouver nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers
talk about how nutritional status shares
postsurgical healing and outcomes. 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. 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, 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) Vancouver Spine Care Centre can coordinate
a Vancouver blood test to check your levels. Vancouver Spine Care Centre looks
at statistics like this and understands how
important nutrition is for our Vancouver chiropractic patients’ health
and healing as well as their spine care. Vancouver Spine Care Centre is ready
to help raise your nutritional status for optimum
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 got
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 may not seem great
for the hospital care, they did alert the hospital to do more to
help these patients who present
with a known risk before surgery. Vancouver Spine Care Centre looks for
ways to preempt Vancouver health issues by looking
for them in advance!
Vancouver Spine Care Centre certainly
wants to help Vancouver back pain patients stay away from
back surgery if possible, and Vancouver Spine Care Centre is also good at assisting
our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical
shape before and after surgery as needed. Vancouver Spine Care Centre
is poised to cooperate with Vancouver
back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery
at bay when feasible. It’s not always
a simple journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s a valuable 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.
Rely on Vancouver Spine Care Centre, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Vancouver nutritional status guide.