Vancouver Disc Centers Recommends Good Nutritional Status To Heal Faster
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). Vancouver Disc Centers 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 address 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 problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Vancouver nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status affects postsurgical outcomes and healing. 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, 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 deal with before the surgery. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers can help you get a Vancouver blood test to check your levels. Vancouver Disc Centers considers statistics like this and appreciates how important nutrition is for our Vancouver chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Vancouver Disc Centers is ready to help raise your nutritional status for optimal 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’s not 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. Vancouver Disc Centers looks for ways to prevent Vancouver health issues by checking for them in advance!
Vancouver Disc Centers looks to help Vancouver back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Vancouver Disc Centers is also good at directing our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. Vancouver Disc Centers is ready to cooperate with Vancouver back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It is not always a simple 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 Vancouver Disc Centers, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Vancouver nutritional status guide.
