La Grande Stress and Its Contribution to Back Pain
From nurses to firefighters, from children to older folks - and all of us in between - work-related stress is stressful. It affects our sense of pain and often prompts sessions of back pain and neck pain and back-related and neck-related pain. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here to help squash the power of work-related stress whenever possible. La Grande back pain and neck pain patients carry everything – including their stress – with them to Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. You can, too! Together, we will deal with work-stress and back and neck pain.
WORK-RELATED STRESS
Work-related stress messes with us. It reveals itself through pain. None of us is resistant to stress, not even a kid! A kid’s job is being a kid and attending school on the path to adulthood. Along the way, kids have job-related stress. The pressures of grades and peers and news and learning problems get to them. Adolescents get low back pain, too. Depression, anxiety, coercion, uneasy relationships, extreme academic pressures, and unsatisfactory school lives may all put college students at risk for chronic low back pain. (1) 11% of firefighters reported moderate to extremely severe stress on the job. 40% reported musculoskeletal symptoms with back pain being the most noted. More stress correlated with more such symptoms. (2) Trash collectors reported back pain issues – upper back pain 89%, shoulder pain 81%, wrist/hand pain 79%, neck pain 68% - which stressed them out more. (3) Researchers discovered that psychological factors and fear-avoidance behaviors caused 11.8% of nursing care facility workers’ stating that chronic low back pain disrupted their work. (4) It’s a rare person whose job is pure happiness and stress-free. The rest of us find ways to manage. Your La Grande chiropractor is by your side.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THE STRESSED
Chiropractors like yours at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC see stressed-out patients. One report found that more than 30% of chiropractic patients described themselves as moderately to severely stressed. Over 50% felt stress had a moderate or greater effect on their current pain. 71% stated that it would be helpful if their chiropractic care had some stress-coping strategies. 44% were interested in participating in a course to improve their stress management skills. (5) Chiropractic care is available to all, regardless of age or profession. Your La Grande chiropractor is trained to diagnose the physical cause of back pain and neck pain and to correlate any work-related stress that may be influencing your La Grande back pain and neck pain. The conversation of how to better cope with stress via lifestyle changes, exercise, etc., helps many La Grande back pain and neck pain patients improve with the La Grande chiropractic treatment plan.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Hayden on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who enjoys working with the toughest, stressed-out back pain and neck pain patients with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management as part of the chiropractic treatment plan.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC welcomes everyone suffering with La Grande back pain and neck pain issues. Together, we’ll create a treatment plan for your relief.
