Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Recommends Good Nutritional Status To Heal Faster
Your health status and nutritional status mirror each other. Factors like serum levels, weight and other issues rate nutritional status. “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). Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a Montreal chiropractic patient during the initial clinical Montreal chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that are uncovered 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 Montreal post-surgical healing and decrease Montreal post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One effective way to check your Montreal nutritional status is the serum albumin concentration. Researchers talk about how nutritional status shares postsurgical healing and outcomes. 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 experience 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%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can deal with before the surgery. (2) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic can coordinate a Montreal blood test to check your levels. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our Montreal chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is prepared to help raise your nutritional status for optimal 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 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 may not seem great for the hospital care, they did alert the hospital to do more to help these patients who come in for surgical procedures with a known risk. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic looks for ways to preempt Montreal health issues by looking for them in advance!
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic certainly wants to help Montreal back pain patients stay away from back surgery if possible, and Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is also good at helping our back pain patients attain good nutritional and physical shape pre- and post-surgically as needed. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is prepared to work with Montreal back pain patients who desire a healthier nutritional status and keep surgery at bay when feasible. It is not always a simple path to a healthy nutritional status, but it is a admirable 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.
Rely on Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic, your back pain specialty practice, to be your Montreal nutritional status guide.
