A Well-Nourished Largo Spine Heals Better
Nutritional status marks 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). Hollstrom & Associates Inc can deduce lots about the nutritional status of a Largo chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Largo chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address 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 assist Largo post-surgical healing and diminish Largo post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Largo nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status influences postsurgical outcomes and healing. Specifically, hypoalbumin levels – low levels under 3.5 g/dL – mark a malnourished state and are predictive of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly for patients who undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Low albumin concentrations in patients 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc can coordinate a Largo blood test to check your levels. Hollstrom & Associates Inc looks at statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Largo chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is ready to help improve 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 influential roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who were nutritionally at-risk got 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 didn’t put the hospital care in a good light, they did put the hospital on notice to do more to help these patients who present with a known risk before surgery. Hollstrom & Associates Inc searches for ways to address Largo health issues by checking for them early on!
Hollstrom & Associates Inc certainly wants to help Largo back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Hollstrom & Associates Inc is also good at assisting our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is prepared to work with Largo back pain patients who intend to get themselves into better 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 Hollstrom & Associates Inc, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Largo nutritional status guide.
