Tonawanda Chiropractic Care Includes Fall Risk Assessment due to Malnutrition
Fall risk and nutrional status. What is the connection? It’s pretty simple when you think about it. Poor nutrition leads to muscle and weight loss. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation carefully assesses our older Tonawanda chiropractic patients at risk for falls, especially their nutritional status. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is concerned about fall prevention!
NUTRITIONAL STATUS BEFORE FALLS
Researchers tried to define the relationship between nutritional status and body mass index (BMI) and fall risk and recurrent fall risk in older people who live in community settings. They discovered that malnourished patients and those at risk for malnourishment maintained a 45% higher risk of having at least one fall. (1) Checking BMI and nutritional status is relatively easy to perform. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation does it to safeguard our Tonawanda chiropractic patients!
Tonawanda FALL RISK AND MALNUTRITION
Fall risk assessments have often ignored nutritional status instead focusing on issues like balance and fall risk-increasing drugs. Nutritional status is influential, too. Malnutrition prompts weight loss which leads to muscle weakness which leads to an increase in fall risk. It is truly a domino effect! A recent study reported that malnutrition was significantly associated with high fall risk according to several leading fall risk assessment tools (especially the Johns Hopkins fall risk assessment tool). (2) Preventing falls is optimal. Recovering from falls is important.
NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND RECOVERY AFTER FALLS
Poor nutritional status in older adults notably in those with a history of falling puts them at risk of inferior recovery from a fall. Nearly a third of community-dwelling adults with a history of falling were either currently malnourished or at risk of malnourishment. Improving the nutritional status of those who have fallen increased their physical performance. (3) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows nutrition and is ready to assist our at-risk patients correct theirs!
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Schedule a Tonawanda chiropractic visit for you and/or your loved who is at risk for falls and/or malnutrition. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation intends to keep our Tonawanda chiropractic patients protected from falls and malnutrition with reliable chiropractic care!
