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Do not ignore nutrition

Despite significant advancements in surgical technique, anesthesia and rehabilitation, nutritional status — an important contributor to outcomes after orthopedic surgery — has been routinely overlooked until more recently.

Malnutrition, particularly in the form of sarcopenia and undernutrition, often remains underdiagnosed and undertreated, yet we are increasingly finding it may have a measurable and modifiable impact on recovery.

Across a series of recent publications, my colleague, Matteo Briguglio, RDN, PhD, and I have described and demonstrated that nutritional disorders are more prevalent in patients undergoing joint arthroplasty and spine surgery than might in

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