Nutritional status denotes 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). Novelli Wellness Center can deduce
lots about the nutritional status of a Orchard Park, NY
chiropractic patient during the first clinical Orchard Park, NY
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 help
Orchard Park, NY post-surgical healing and decrease
Orchard Park, NY post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good marker of your
Orchard Park, NY nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers
discuss how nutritional status shares
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 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%). Pre-operative
nutritional status is an independent risk factor for re-admission after spine
surgery that can surely be remedied before a
surgical intervention. (2) Novelli Wellness Center can coordinate
a Orchard Park, NY blood test to check your levels. Novelli Wellness Center considers statistics like this and appreciates how
important nutrition is for our Orchard Park, NY chiropractic patients’ health
and healing as well as their spine care. Novelli Wellness Center is prepared
to help raise 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 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 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. Novelli Wellness Center looks for
ways to preempt Orchard Park, NY health issues by checking
for them early on!
Novelli Wellness Center looks to help Orchard Park, NY back pain patients stay away from
back surgery if possible, and Novelli Wellness Center is also effective at helping
our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical
shape before and after surgery as needed. Novelli Wellness Center
is ready to work with Orchard Park, NY
back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery
at bay whenever feasible. It is 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 chosen.
Count on Novelli Wellness Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Orchard Park, NY nutritional status guide.