La Grande Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where is chiropractic medicine in your life, in the lives of other La Grande folks? Let us start with where it is in others’ lives for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Is that news to you? Probably because it requires numerous years for such new, proven ideas to trickle down to common knowledge. There are even people who (not our La Grande chiropractic clients!) deem chiropractors are quacks when actually chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your La Grande chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC certainly is the La Grande back pain specialist!
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC welcomes back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our La Grande chiropractic practice, especially the painful cases! For example, patients who have recurrent lumbar disc herniation reportedly respond to non-surgical care and escape the need for reoperation. (3) Reports state that from 9 to 33% of people get spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those who do get spinal manipulation see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The call for chiropractic spine care is rising. A majority of neurosurgeons think that a minimum period of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What does such a La Grande neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is an option for pain relief. Another such study reported that no conclusion is drawn as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is superior for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs causing the condition termed stenosis. To top it off, a high rate of adverse effects is stated in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were described for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a sound idea. A study of 137 patients recommended to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not require surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to need surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC has vast success in relieving low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC utilizes a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which integrates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves allowing normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper reporting flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A study of 674 emergency room adult visits revealed that 500 (74.2%) patients had used at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People going to them were significantly younger and more probable to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Users were much more liable to believe that MBP inhibited illness, treated illness, and was safe, more effective than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
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Listen to a PODCAST about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation benefits back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have had back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a La Grande chiropractic appointment with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC as you come to realize that chiropractors - like your La Grande chiropractor, a true La Grande back pain specialist – are appropriate for the non-surgical treatment of La Grande spine pain and disability. Medicine now endorses spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s specialty, as first line treatment for spine pain.
