Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Recommends Good Nutritional Status To Heal Faster
Nutritional status indicates your health status. Nutritional status is measured by many factors: serum levels, weight, and other issues. “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). Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC can tell a lot about the nutritional status of a La Grande chiropractic patient during the initial clinical La Grande chiropractic examination and set up a treatment plan to take care of any nutritional concerns that are uncovered especially 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 La Grande post-surgical healing and lessen La Grande post-back surgical problems.Good status also helps healing with non-surgical care!
One test that is a good sign of your La Grande 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 – indicate a malnourished state and are indicative of post-surgical recovery complication rates, particularly for patients who experience 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%). Post-surgical readmission rates can be influenced by pre-operative nutritional status, an issue that a patient can address before the surgery. (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC can help you get a La Grande blood test to check your levels. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC considers statistics like this and understands how important nutrition is for our La Grande chiropractic patients’ health and healing as well as their spine care. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is prepared to help raise your nutritional status for best 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 influential roles in patient recovery. 88% of patients who had nutritional 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’s not 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 present with a known risk before surgery. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC looks for ways to preempt La Grande health issues by checking for them early on!
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC certainly wants to help La Grande back pain patients avoid back surgery if possible, and Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is also effective at directing our back pain patients get into good nutritional and physical shape before and after surgery as needed. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to work with La Grande back pain patients who want to get into good shape and keep surgery at bay whenever possible. It is not always a simple path to a healthy nutritional status, but it’s 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 used.
Count on Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC, your back pain specialty practice, to be your La Grande nutritional status guide.
