Exercise is effective and helpful. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our La Grande patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows this isn’t good for our La Grande back pain patients! Why do back pain patients have weaker muscles? Fat. With back pain comes more fat infiltration into the back muscles, muscles like the lumbar multifidus muscles which greatly influence the range of motion in lumbar spine. Fattier multifidi, less lumbar flexion. (1)
One article shares that doing a little exercise does a lot! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in your risk of getting back pain. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will who you how to do them so you can experience the most possible back pain relief. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is with you, our La Grande back pain patient, throughout your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is an additional such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for managing chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC chooses to use.
Adding back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enriches the good outcomes of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least curtail future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who attended a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to share the material. (6) La Grande chiropractic patients at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a La Grande chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey toward back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
