Minster Chiropractic Center Recommends Good Nutritional Status To Heal Faster

Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues determine 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). Minster Chiropractic Center can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a Minster chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Minster chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to address any nutritional concerns that pop up especially 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 Minster post-surgical healing and decrease Minster post-back surgical complications.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!

One test that is a good marker of your Minster 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 experience 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 affected by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) Minster Chiropractic Center can help you get a Minster blood test to check your levels. Minster Chiropractic Center considers statistics like this and sees how important nutrition is for our Minster chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Minster Chiropractic Center is ready to help maximize your nutritional status for optimum 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 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 is not very good! (3) While these stats may not seem great 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. Minster Chiropractic Center looks for ways to address Minster health issues by looking for them in advance!

Minster Chiropractic Center looks to help Minster back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Minster Chiropractic Center is also good at helping our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Minster Chiropractic Center is poised to work with Minster back pain patients who want to get into good 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 Minster Chiropractic Center, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Minster nutritional status guide.