Nutritional status marks your
health status. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues rate
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). Hollstrom & Associates Inc can deduce
lots about the nutritional status of a Largo
chiropractic patient during the first clinical Largo
chiropractic examination and establish a treatment plan to take
care of 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 assist
Largo post-surgical healing and diminish
Largo post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good sign of your
Largo nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers
talk about how nutritional status affects
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 undergo
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, 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%). Pre-operative
nutritional status is an independent risk factor for re-admission after spine
surgery that can certainly be addressed before a
surgical intervention. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc can coordinate
a Largo blood test to check your levels. Hollstrom & Associates Inc looks
at statistics like this and appreciates how
important nutrition is for our Largo chiropractic patients’ health
and healing as well as their spine care. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is prepared
to help improve your nutritional status for optimum
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 significant roles in patient recovery. 88%
of patients who had nutritional 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 did not 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 preempt Largo health issues by checking
for them in advance!
Hollstrom & Associates Inc certainly
wants to help Largo back pain patients stay away from
back surgery if possible, and Hollstrom & Associates Inc is also good at helping
our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical
shape pre- and post-surgically as required. Hollstrom & Associates Inc
is poised to work with Largo
back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery
at bay whenever feasible. It is not always
a simple path 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.
Count on Hollstrom & Associates Inc, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Largo nutritional status guide.