Chiropractic Care 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). Chiropractic Care can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a West Palm Beach chiropractic patient during the first clinical West Palm Beach chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to deal with any nutritional concerns that pop up 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 West Palm Beach post-surgical healing and lessen West Palm Beach post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!

One test that is a good sign of your West Palm Beach nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status shares postsurgical outcomes and healing. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – indicate a malnourished state and are predictive of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly for patients who undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Patients who have 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%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can deal with before the surgery. (2) Chiropractic Care can help you get a West Palm Beach blood test to check your levels. Chiropractic Care looks at statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our West Palm Beach chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Chiropractic Care is prepared to help improve your nutritional status for best 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 influential roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who were nutritionally at-risk received 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 did not put the hospital care in a good light, they did alert the hospital to do more to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Chiropractic Care searches for ways to prevent West Palm Beach health issues by looking for them early on!

Chiropractic Care certainly wants to help West Palm Beach back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Chiropractic Care is also effective at helping our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Chiropractic Care is prepared to work with West Palm Beach back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better shape and keep surgery at bay when possible. It’s not always a simple journey to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s a worthy 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.

Rely on Chiropractic Care, your back pain specialty practice, to be your West Palm Beach nutritional status guide.