Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s also the goal of your La Grande chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the La Grande back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the best! A new survey found that chiropractors like yours at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC take pleasure in their profession most because they are capable to decrease pain and build strength, flexibility, and power with their patients through a thorough treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your La Grande chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a highlight of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers admit certain limitations in their study as they pulled a certain group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability influences how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In La Grande, back pain sufferers get a partner at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC who can help them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is recognizing that the one who is really at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and needs suggestions regarding how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to contain and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take support from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) La Grande back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC need to communicate how each sees back pain management to best help the patient!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next La Grande chiropractic appointment with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC strives to give our La Grande spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.
