A Well-Nourished San Jose 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). Chiropractic Solutions can discover much about the nutritional status of a San Jose chiropractic patient during the first clinical San Jose chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to take care of 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 San Jose post-surgical healing and diminish San Jose post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your San Jose 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 – indicate a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, especially for patients who experience anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Low albumin concentrations in patients 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%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be affected by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can deal with before the surgery. (2) Chiropractic Solutions can help you get a San Jose blood test to check your levels. Chiropractic Solutions considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our San Jose chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Chiropractic Solutions 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 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 do more to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Chiropractic Solutions looks for ways to prevent San Jose health issues by checking for them early on!
Chiropractic Solutions looks to help San Jose back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Chiropractic Solutions is also good at assisting our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Chiropractic Solutions is ready to work with San Jose back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay whenever feasible. It’s not always an easy path to a healthy nutritional status, but it is a valuable one for your physical body’s health and potential healing if surgery is called for as well as when a non-surgical healing approach is used.
Count on Chiropractic Solutions, your back pain specialty practice, to be your San Jose nutritional status guide.
